List of cities founded by Alexander the Great
Map of founded (Black) and destroyed (Red) cities by Alexander the Great (with present-day names)
Ancient cities founded by Alexander the Great in Central and South Asia
Alexander the Great founded, substantially re-established or renamed numerous towns and cities.
Below are some of these cities[1] (with present-day locations):
Modern Bulgaria
Modern Turkey
- Alexandria Troas, modern Dalyan
- Alexandria by the Latmus, possibly Alinda
- Alexandria near Issus; İskenderun preserves the name, but probably not the exact site.
- Smyrna. According to the legend, after Alexander hunted on the Mount Pagus, he slept under a plane tree at the sanctuary of Nemesis. While he was sleeping, the goddess appeared and told him to found a city there and move into it the Smyrnaeans from the "old" city. The Smyrnaeans sent ambassadors to the oracle at Clarus to ask about this, and after the response from the oracle they decided to move to the "new" Smyrna.[2]
Modern Syria
- Nikephorion, present day Raqqa. Isidore of Charax, in the Parthian Stations, wrote that it was a Greek city founded by Alexander the Great.[3][4]
Modern Egypt
Modern Iraq
- Iskandariya, Iraq.
- Alexandria in Susiana, later Charax Spasinu
- Alexandria of Mygdonia, probably in the area of Erbil[5]
Modern Iran
- Alexandria Asiana, possibly Eskandari-ye Baraftab and Nesar-e Eskandari
- Alexandria Carmania, near Soghan Rural District
- Alexandria Susia or Alexandropolis,[6] modern Mashhad
Modern Tajikistan
- Alexandria Eschate, at or close to modern Khujand
Modern Uzbekistan
- Six cities north of the Oxus, one of which may be Termez
Modern Turkmenistan
- Alexandria in Margiana, formerly Merv
Modern Afghanistan
- Alexandria Ariana, now Herat
- Alexandria Prophthasia, perhaps Farah, Afghanistan
- Alexandria Arachosia, now Kandahar
- Alexandria in the Caucasus, now Bagram
- Alexandria on the Oxus or Alexandria Oxiana, probably Ai-Khanoum
- Alexandria in Opiania, Ghazni
- Nikaia or Nicaea, at or near Jalalabad[5]
Modern Pakistan
- Arigaeum, modern Nawagai, Bajaur
- Nicaea, somewhere in modern Punjab
- Alexandria Bucephalous (Bucephala), somewhere in modern Punjab. Maybe Phalia or Gujrat, Pakistan or Jalalpur Sharif.
- Alexandria on the Indus, possibly Uch, and another town on the Indus.
- Patala, unknown, possibly near Hyderabad, Sindh
- Xylinepolis, unknown, possibly near Hyderabad, Sindh
- Alexandria in Orietai near Rhambacia, possibly Bela, Pakistan.
- Alexandria, possibly near modern Multan.[5]
- Alexandria, founded beside the old Indian town of Patala at the mouth of the Indus river at Regio Patalis.[5]
Modern India
- Alexandria on the Hyphasis; In Punjab, India on the western bank of the Beas (Hyphasis) river.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Alexander's City Foundations". Livius.org. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 7.5
- ^ Isidoros of Charax, Parthian Stations, § 1.2
- ^ Périple de Marcien d'Héraclée, Épitome d'Artemidore, Isidore de Charax, etc., ou, Supplément aux dernières éditions des Petits géographes, p.248
- ^ a b c d The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, ALEXANDRIAN FOUNDATIONS Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Soviet Central Asia, India
- ^ Pliny, Nat. 6.29
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