Silvio Roggo (ed.), "A river in Central Asia" in last modified February 16, 2024, http://syriaca.org/place/5659
  
    
      
        
          A river in Central Asia
          ܢܗܪܐ ܚܕ ܪܒܐ ܘܬܩܝܦܐ
          
            Joh. Eph., EH 6.7, records how 2000 Christian Roman women, sent as a gift by Khosrow to the Turks, decided to drown themselves in a broad river. The river might have been the Oxus or the Jaxartes in central Asia.
          
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            3.6.7
          
          
            
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