Aras
River in AsiaWikipedia
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Search complete. 34 mentions across 9 episodes found for "Aras".
Sep 20, 2026
MatthewHOST
It struck and disappeared, and then struck again.
MatthewHOST
After the battle, Heraclius crosses the Araxes River, and he campaigned in the plains on the southern bank, deep in Persian territory.
MatthewHOST
He had no walls behind him.
MatthewHOST
He had no fortress to retreat to.
Hrant MikaelianGUEST
So, given that Armenia lately has become problematic with the climate issue as well and the water, has become an issue also because Turkey is building several dams near border with Armenia.
Hrant MikaelianGUEST
So reducing water, flow towards Armenia through Araks and Ahurian rivers.
Hrant MikaelianGUEST
So we can understand that the water is a concern.
Hrant MikaelianGUEST
But I think this case is not a major concern.
David GillespieNARRATOR
Eagle with eagle met, standard to standard, spear opposed to spear.
David GillespieNARRATOR
Whence, citizens, this rage, this boundless lust to sate barbarians with the blood of Rome? Did not the shade of Crassus, wondering still, cry for his vengeance? Could ye not have spoiled, to deck your trophies, haughty Babylon? Why wage campaigns that send no laurels home? What lands, what oceans, might have been the prize of all the blood thus shed in civil strife! Where Titan rises, where night hides the stars, 'neath southern noons all quivering with heat, or where keen frost that never yields to spring in icy fetters binds the Scythian main; long since barbarians by the Eastern Sea and far Araxes' stream, and those who know, if any such there be, the birth of Nile, had felt our yoke.
David GillespieNARRATOR
Then, Rome, upon thyself, with all the world beneath thee, if thou must wage this nefarious war: but not till then.
David GillespieNARRATOR
Now view the houses with half-ruined walls throughout Italian cities.
CarolinaNARRATOR
A man whose name was Targitaus appeared in this country, which was then desolate.
CarolinaNARRATOR
They say that his parents were Zeus and a daughter of the Borysthenes River.
CarolinaNARRATOR
I do not believe the story, but it is told.
CarolinaNARRATOR
Such was Targitaus' lineage.
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CarolinaNARRATOR
There is yet another story, to which account I myself especially incline.
CarolinaNARRATOR
It is to this effect.
CarolinaNARRATOR
The nomadic Scythians inhabiting Asia, when hard pressed in war by the Massagetae, fled across the Araxes River to the Cimmerian country.
CarolinaNARRATOR
For the country which the Scythians now inhabit is said to have belonged to the Cimmerians before.
Cathy BarrattNARRATOR
Cyrus, however, continued to move on.
Cathy BarrattNARRATOR
The boundary between his dominions and those of the queen was at the River Araxes, a stream flowing from west to east through the central parts of Asia toward the Caspian Sea.
Cathy BarrattNARRATOR
As Cyrus advanced, he found the country growing more and more wild and desolate.
Cathy BarrattNARRATOR
It was inhabited by savage tribes who lived on roots and herbs, and who were elevated very little in any respect above the wild beasts that roamed in the forests around them.
Cathy BarrattNARRATOR
These savages, therefore, Herodotus says, were accustomed to assemble around a fire in their convivial festivities and to throw some of this fruit in the midst of it.
Cathy BarrattNARRATOR
The fumes emitted by the fruit would soon begin to intoxicate the whole circle, when they would throw on more fruit and become more and more excited, until at length they would jump up and dance about and sing in a state of complete inebriation.
Cathy BarrattNARRATOR
Among such savages as these, and through the forests and wildernesses in which they lived, Cyrus advanced till he reached the Araxes.
Cathy BarrattNARRATOR
Here, after considering for some time by what means he could best pass the river, he determined to build a floating bridge by means of boats and rafts obtained from the natives on the banks or built for the purpose.
CarolinaNARRATOR
It is to this effect.
CarolinaNARRATOR
The nomadic Scythians inhabiting Asia, when hard pressed in war by the Massagetae, fled across the Araxes River to the Cimmerian country.
CarolinaNARRATOR
For the country which the Scythians now inhabit is said to have belonged to the Cimmerians before.
CarolinaNARRATOR
And the Cimmerians, at the advance of the Scythians, deliberated as men threatened by a great force should.
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Shirley AndersonNARRATOR
In this peninsula there are just three nations.
Shirley AndersonNARRATOR
So much for the part of Asia west of the Persians.
Shirley AndersonNARRATOR
But what is beyond the Persians and Medes and Saspires and Colchians, east towards the rising sun, this is bounded on the one hand by the Red Sea and to the north by the Caspian Sea and the Araxes River, which flows towards the sun's rising.
Shirley AndersonNARRATOR
As far as India, Asia is an inhabited land, but thereafter all to the east is desolation, nor can anyone say what kind of land is there.
DamonHOST
That changed a little at the very end of October, when General Pyotr Kotliarevsky did something with a very small force that deserves at least a brief mention.
DamonHOST
Kotliarevsky commanded perhaps 2,000 men against the Persian army under Crown Prince Avas Mieza, numbering by most estimates somewhere north of 10,000, dug in on the banks of the Aras River near a crossing called Aslanduz.
DamonHOST
Conventional military sense said retreat, or at a minimum, wait for reinforcements.
DamonHOST
Kotliarevsky, echoing Suvorov, instead crossed the river at night on the 31st of October and attacked the Persian camp before dawn, catching it entirely unprepared.
Thomas CopelandVOICE_ACTOR
"Well have we speeded, and o'er hill and dale, forest and field and flood, temples and towers, cut shorter many a league.
Thomas CopelandVOICE_ACTOR
Here thou beholds't Assyria and her empire's ancient bounds, Araxes and the Caspian Lake.
Thomas CopelandVOICE_ACTOR
Thence on as far as Indus east, the Euphrates west, and oft beyond.
Thomas CopelandVOICE_ACTOR
To south, the Persian Bay and inaccessible the Arabian drought.
CarolinaNARRATOR
It is to this effect.
CarolinaNARRATOR
The nomadic Scythians inhabiting Asia, when hard-pressed in war by the Massegetae, fled across the Araxes River to the Cimmerian country.
CarolinaNARRATOR
For the country which the Scythians now inhabit is said to have belonged to the Cimmerians before.
CarolinaNARRATOR
And the Cimmerians, at the advance of the Scythians, deliberated as men threatened by a great force should.
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Shirley AndersonNARRATOR
In this peninsula, there are just three nations.
Shirley AndersonNARRATOR
So much for the part of Asia west of the Persians.
Shirley AndersonNARRATOR
But what is beyond the Persians and Medes and Saspires and Colchians, east towards the rising sun, this is bounded on the one hand by the Red Sea and to the north by the Caspian Sea and the Araxes River, which flows towards the sun's rising.
Shirley AndersonNARRATOR
As far as India, Asia is an inhabited land, but thereafter, all to the east is desolation, nor can anyone say what kind of land is there.