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The Greek term anabasis referred to an expedition from a coastline up into the interior of a country. The term katabasis referred to a trip from the interior down to the coast. So anabasis means "Expedition" or "The March Up Country" and carries the same connotation in Greek as it does in English. There are two classic texts with the name:



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The Greek term anabasis referred to an expedition from a coastline up into the interior of a country. The term katabasis referred to a trip from the interior down to the coast. So anabasis means "Expedition" or "The March Up Country" and carries the same connotation in Greek as it does in English. There are two classic texts with the name:

  • Anabasis (Xenophon)
    Anabasis (Xenophon)

    Anabasis is the most famous work of the Ancient Greece professional soldier and writer Xenophon. The journey it narrates is his best known accomplishment and "one of the great adventures in human history," as Will Durant expressed the common assessment....
    , by the Greek writer Xenophon (431–355 B.C.), about the expedition of Cyrus the Younger, a Persian prince, against his brother, King Artaxerxes II
  • Anabasis Alexandri
    Anabasis Alexandri

    Anabasis Alexandri, the Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian is the most important source on Alexander the Great.The Greek term wiktionary:anabasis referred to an expedition from a coastline into the interior of a country....
    , by the Greek historian Arrian (86-after 146 A.D.), about Alexander the Great (336–323 B.C.)


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    , is a wind which blows up a steep slope or mountain side.
  • Anabase (poetry), a poem by Saint-John Perse
    Saint-John Perse

    Saint-John Perse was a France poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry."...
     first published in French in 1924. The poem was translated by T. S. Eliot
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     with the title Anabasis.
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    , couriers of antiquity.
  • The "Siberian Anabasis" is a literary name for the march of the Czechoslovak Legions
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     across Siberia
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    Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
     during the Russian Civil War
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    The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed and the Bolshevik party assumed power in Saint Petersburg....
    . The name tries to link their campaign to the epic of Xenophon.