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The Battle of Cunaxa took place on the left bank of the Euphrates River, located north of the ancient city of Babylon.1
Fought in 401 BCE, this conflict involved the forces of Cyrus the Younger and his brother, Artaxerxes II, in a struggle for the Achaemenian throne. The Greek historian Xenophon famously documented the aftermath of this battle in his work, the Anabasis, which details the arduous retreat of the Greek mercenaries to the Black Sea following Cyrus's defeat and death.12