Charax (disambiguation)
Charax (Greek Χάραξ "hill" or "fortification") stands for:
- Charax , a genus of tetra
Places in ancient geography:
- Charax (Bithynia) , trading post in Bithynia in the Gulf of Nicomedia, today Hereke on the Sea of Marmara in Turkey
- Charax (Libya) , port city of the Carthaginians in the Great Syrte, between today's Sirte and Ben Jawad in Libya
- Charax (Crimea) , fortress of the Scythians on the Tauride Chersonese, near Haspra south of Yalta in today's Crimea
- Charax Mediae , City in Media on the Caspian Sea
- Charax Spasinu , capital of the Charakene Empire, northwest of Basra in Iraq
- Alexandrou Charax at Apameia Kibotos
- Patroklou Charax, small island between Sunion and Athens, see Patroklos (island)
- older name of Tralleis in Caria
Name of persons:
- Claudius Charax from Pergamon, 2nd century Greek historian
- Ioannes Charax , technical grammarian of the 6th century
- Aulus Claudius Charax , Roman suffect consul 147
