Alexandria Eschate (Attic Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια Ἐσχάτη, Doric Greek: Αλεχάνδρεια Ἐσχάτα, romanized: Alexandria Eschata, "Furthest Alexandria") was a city...
13 KB (1,405 words) - 16:08, 13 December 2024
Afghanistan Alexandria on the Oxus, Bactria, in modern Afghanistan Alexandria in Margiana or Merv, Bactria, in modern Turkmenistan Alexandria Eschate, Fergana...
5 KB (576 words) - 18:37, 14 May 2024
Alexandria (/ˌælɪɡˈzændriə, -ˈzɑːn-/ AL-ig-ZA(H)N-dree-ə; Arabic: الإسكندرية; Ancient Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the...
104 KB (10,388 words) - 13:04, 20 December 2024
stretches back over 2,300 years, when Alexander the Great founded Alexandria Eschate at its southwestern end. Chinese chroniclers date its towns to more...
51 KB (6,100 words) - 03:57, 10 December 2024
İskenderun (redirect from Alexandria Minor)
historically known as Alexandretta (Greek: Αλεξανδρέττα, lit. 'little Alexandria') and Scanderoon, is a municipality and district of Hatay Province, Turkey...
28 KB (2,444 words) - 08:38, 22 October 2024
Alexandria in the Caucasus (Ancient Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια Alexándreia; medieval Kapisa, modern Bagram) was a colony of Alexander the Great. It was one of...
8 KB (710 words) - 01:47, 7 December 2024
to the Ferghana Valley, controlled by the Hellenistic city-state Alexandria Eschate (modern Khujand, Tajikistan), which can probably be understood as...
21 KB (2,849 words) - 11:06, 16 September 2024
founded a series of new cities, all called Alexandria, including modern Kandahar in Afghanistan, and Alexandria Eschate ("The Furthest") in modern Tajikistan...
213 KB (21,995 words) - 08:52, 22 December 2024
List of cities founded by Alexander the Great (redirect from Alexandria on the Oxus)
abundance of these settlements led to many taking on epithets such as Eschate or Oxeiana. As some settlements may have taken on multiple such sobriquets...
28 KB (1,949 words) - 11:51, 19 September 2024
settlement near Cyropolis in 329 BC and named it Alexandria Eschate (Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια Ἐσχάτη) or "Alexandria The Furthest". The city would form a bastion...
23 KB (2,051 words) - 22:40, 20 October 2024
Alexander conquers Samarkand, Uzbekistan 329 Alexander the Great founds Alexandria Eschate in modern Tajikistan 329-160 Dayuan Kingdom. 328 Sybaris on the Traeis...
64 KB (7,986 words) - 09:51, 29 October 2024
Cyrus (Cyropolis in Greek), which he then renamed after himself Alexandria Eschate—"Alexandria the furthest"—in 329 BC. For most of its history since at least...
16 KB (1,581 words) - 19:58, 18 December 2024
years later and successfully laid siege to the Dayuan capital at Alexandria Eschate, and forced Dayuan to surrender unconditionally. The Han expeditionary...
18 KB (2,539 words) - 21:25, 13 November 2024
from an early date, but decreasing in importance after the cities of Alexandria and Antioch flourished in coin minting and overshadowed other cities....
83 KB (7,551 words) - 19:00, 21 December 2024
centuries BC, it was one of the great Hellenistic cities, comparable to Alexandria in Egypt, and greater than Syrian Antioch. Excavations indicate that the...
17 KB (1,967 words) - 16:43, 28 November 2024
Euthydemus's control extended to Sogdiana, going beyond the city of Alexandria Eschate founded by Alexander the Great in Ferghana: "And they also held Sogdiana...
218 KB (26,149 words) - 08:46, 18 December 2024
Alexandria in Arachosia (Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια Ἀραχωσίας) also known as Alexandropolis (Ἀλεξανδρόπολις) was a city in ancient times that is now called Kandahar...
12 KB (1,339 words) - 15:39, 24 October 2024
Alexandria (on the) Hyphasis was the name of the fortress on the west bank of the Hyphasis (Beas) river at which Alexander the Great stopped on 31 Aug...
3 KB (249 words) - 04:42, 2 July 2024
Alexandria on the Indus (Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια ἐπὶ Ἰνδῷ, likely modern Uch, Pakistan) was a city founded by Alexander the Great at the junction of the Indus...
2 KB (210 words) - 20:45, 18 December 2024
Euthydemus's control extended to Sogdiana, going beyond the city of Alexandria Eschate founded by Alexander the Great in Ferghana:[citation needed] And they...
104 KB (8,495 words) - 10:47, 14 December 2024
relating to the Ferghana Valley, controlled by the Hellenistic polis Alexandria Eschate (modern Khujand, Tajikistan), which can probably be understood as...
25 KB (2,851 words) - 13:25, 29 October 2024
Li Guangli conquers the state of Luntai. Li Guangli then besieges Alexandria Eschate, the capital of Dayuan in the Hellenistic Ferghana Valley, despite...
3 KB (353 words) - 17:20, 29 September 2024
Africa Alexandria Ptolemais Hermiou Asia Ai-Khanoum Alexandretta Antioch Apamea Alexandria Arachosia Alexandria Ariana Alexandria Eschate Alexandria in the...
24 KB (2,654 words) - 09:14, 6 December 2024
the empire of Alexander the Great, the city was renamed Alexandria Eschate ("furthest Alexandria") in 329 BCE." Golden, Peter B. Central Asia in World History...
35 KB (4,864 words) - 09:58, 18 December 2024
the empire of Alexander the Great, the city was renamed Alexandria Eschate ("furthest Alexandria") in 329 BCE." Golden, Peter B. Central Asia in World History...
110 KB (13,193 words) - 01:20, 3 December 2024
Africa Alexandria Ptolemais Hermiou Asia Ai-Khanoum Alexandretta Antioch Apamea Alexandria Arachosia Alexandria Ariana Alexandria Eschate Alexandria in the...
33 KB (3,467 words) - 16:09, 28 November 2024
making the city the third largest in the Roman Empire after Rome and Alexandria and one of the most important cities in the eastern Mediterranean. From...
66 KB (8,222 words) - 07:02, 22 December 2024
Asia, including the Fergana Valley (Alexandria Eschate), Transoxiana (Alexandria on the Oxus) and Punjab (Alexandria on the Indus). 180 BC – 10 AD: The...
23 KB (2,852 words) - 10:04, 15 December 2024
seeking trade, though frictions between the envoy and the rulers at Alexandria Eschate led to the War of the Heavenly Horses between the Chinese and the...
22 KB (2,209 words) - 14:33, 19 December 2024
that Alexander the Great may have established his own guard-town of Alexandria Eschate on the same location, simply renaming the Achaemenid city of Cyropolis...
7 KB (711 words) - 17:08, 28 November 2024