Alexandria/Kapisa
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
"Alexandria in the Caucasus", an Achaemenid town re-established by Alexander the Great at modern Charikar, near Bagram in Afghanistan.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59668
34.992542, 69.310488
- Representative Locations:
- Centerpoint of visible remains of Alexandria/Kapisa (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Ἀλεξάνδρεια πρὸς Καυκάσῳ (Alexandreia pròs Kaukásōi: Akkadian, 330 BC - 30 BC)
- Bagram (English, modern)
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- Alexandria (English, 330 BC - AD 300)
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settlement
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 B3 Alexandria
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Begram (cf. Kapisa) AFG.
M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Alexandria/Kapisa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59668> [accessed: 17 December 2024]
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