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| Sep 18, 2016 at 3:17 | comment | added | congusbongus | @SJuan76 be careful when measuring distances like that. The straight-line distance is 947km, which is 70% of that road distance, which as you said, doesn't match the ancient travel path necessarily. See also the coastline paradox. | |
| Sep 17, 2016 at 15:03 | comment | added | SJuan76 | Wikipedia says Cunaxa is near current Baghdad, and Google Maps gives a 1324 km. road trip between Baghdad and Trebizon, so I would guess the anabasis (retreat only) to be in the ballpark of 1200-1400 km (yes modern roads are not straight, but an greek army would have had also to follow the roads of the time, to detour to get supplies and also they did not have the ways to keep a perfect straight path). | |
| Sep 16, 2016 at 14:57 | comment | added | David Richerby | @Anixx Typing "500 miles in km" into Google's search box will give you the answer instantly, rather than having to wait half an hour for somebody to respond to a comment. This works for conversions between most common units. | |
| Sep 16, 2016 at 11:04 | comment | added | Peter Erwin | @Anixx: that would be about 800 to 950 kilometers. | |
| Sep 16, 2016 at 10:34 | comment | added | Anixx | @Peter Erwin how much it is in kilometers? | |
| Sep 16, 2016 at 10:11 | comment | added | Peter Erwin | congusbongus is correct. The first part of the march (Sardes to Cunaxa, the "anabasis" proper) was the march of Cyrus the Younger's army to confront and defeat his brother and claim the throne of Persia. Only the part after the Battle of Cunaxa would count as a "retreat": somewhere between 500 and 600 miles. | |
| Sep 16, 2016 at 8:18 | comment | added | user21358 | Looks to be about 1000-1500 miles. | |
| Sep 16, 2016 at 7:31 | comment | added | congusbongus | Can you please elaborate, what's the distance? I think only the section between Cunaxa and the Black Sea count. | |
| Sep 16, 2016 at 6:22 | history | answered | Anixx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |