Alexandria Eschate
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy
Creators: M.U. Erdosy
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Enes Yılandiloğlu, Tom Elliott, World Historical Gazetteer
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Nov 07, 2025 09:01 PM
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History
Located in central Asia, Alexandria Eschate (or "Alexandria the Farthest") was founded by Alexander the Great in August 329 B.C. The city was located in the Fergana Valley in what is now modern Tajikistan.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59672
40.264798, 69.640562
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 19951 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Alexandria Eschate (330 BC - AD 300)
- Cyreschata (30 BC - AD 640)
- Alexandria Eschate located on Iaxartes/Silis/Tanais (river) (unspecified date range)
- Hic Alexander Responsum accepit usque quo Alexander located at Alexandria Eschate (unspecified date range)
settlement
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 B1 Alexandria Eschate
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Khojend TAJ
M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Enes Yılandiloğlu, Tom Elliott, and World Historical Gazetteer, 'Alexandria Eschate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59672> [accessed: 04 December 2025]
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