Alexandreschate

ancient city, Egypt
Also known as: Alexandria the Farthest

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founding by Alexander the Great

  • Athens: Acropolis
    In ancient Greek civilization: The conquest of Bactria and the Indus valley

    …Alexander founded the city of Alexandreschate (“Alexandria the Farthest”), not far from the site of Cyropolis, a city of Cyrus II the Great, whom Alexander highly admired. This is a reminder that Persian urbanization in Central Asia had not been negligible. (At the interesting Bactrian site of Ai Khanum, which…

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