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Whether the city was founded before or after Alexander's visit to the Siwa Oasis is disputed; his motives for founding Alexandria are also controversial, with military, political, economic and trading factors often cited. The settlement would later grow into one of the most important cities in the world, with an estimated population of 500,000 ...
Pages in category "Cities founded by Alexander the Great" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
All five agree that Alexander founded two cities, one on each side of the Indus, naming one Nikaia and the other Boukephala. [2] Craterus, one of Alexander's leading generals, was appointed to construct and fortify the new cities, a task he had performed a few months earlier at Arigaion (an ancient city possibly located under modern Nawagai).
It was one of more than twenty cities founded or renamed by Alexander the Great. It was founded around 330 BC, on the foundations of an earlier Achaemenid fortress. [2] Arachosia is the Greek name of an ancient province of the Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian empires. The province of Arachosia was centered around the Argandab valley in Kandahar.
Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in April 331 BC as Ἀλεξάνδρεια (Alexandreia), as one of his many city foundations. After he captured the Egyptian Satrapy from the Persians, Alexander wanted to build a large Greek city on Egypt's coast that would bear his name.
Alexandria Eschate (Attic Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια Ἐσχάτη, Doric Greek: Αλεχάνδρεια Ἐσχάτα, romanized: Alexandria Eschata, "Furthest Alexandria") was a city founded by Alexander the Great, at the south-western end of the Fergana Valley (modern Tajikistan) in August 329 BC. [1]
"According to Libanius, a 4th-century AD native of the city, Alexander planned to found a city on the future site of Antioch, but did not have enough time to do so; he did however set up a shrine to Zeus and a small fortress. " --> "According to Libanius, a 4th-century AD native of the city, Alexander planned to found a city on the future site ...
Alexander on the Indus is located at the junction of the Indus and the Acesines. 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 and the Acesines river .