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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient city of Media southeast of modern Tehran in north-central Iran. One of the greatest cities of ancient times, it was traditionally founded in 3000 BC and flourished until the Middle Ages. The city was finally destroyed by Tatars in the 13th century AD.
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Examples
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The Persian leader had sent ahead his harem and supply wagons to a pass called the Caspian Gates in the mountains east of Rhagae Tehran leading to Bactria.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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They reached Rhagae in only eleven days and at last saw the towering Elburz Mountains rising before them.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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The Persian leader had sent ahead his harem and supply wagons to a pass called the Caspian Gates in the mountains east of Rhagae Tehran leading to Bactria.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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They reached Rhagae in only eleven days and at last saw the towering Elburz Mountains rising before them.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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The Persian leader had sent ahead his harem and supply wagons to a pass called the Caspian Gates in the mountains east of Rhagae Tehran leading to Bactria.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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They reached Rhagae in only eleven days and at last saw the towering Elburz Mountains rising before them.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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The highland area was urbanized very late; the Median cities of Ecbatana (Hamadan) and Rhagae and the Persian Persepolis and Parsargadae were built only in the first millennium.
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Gaumata is so like your brother Bartja, that in the school for priests at Rhagae, where he still is, he was always called
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 Georg Ebers 1867
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Gaumata is so like your brother Bartja, that in the school for priests at Rhagae, where he still is, he was always called
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 Georg Ebers 1867
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Gaumata is so like your brother Bartja, that in the school for priests at Rhagae, where he still is, he was always called
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 Georg Ebers 1867
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