Boukephala
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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Dec 16, 2020 05:23 AM
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History
Boukephala or Bucephala was an ancient city founded on the right bank of the Hydaspes river by Alexander the Great following the battle with Porus. Alexander named the city after his warhorse, Bucephalus. Its precise location remains debated.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59750
32.520613, 73.393843
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 20000 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
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- Ἀλεξάνδρεια Βουκέφαλα (Alexandreia Boukephala: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Boos Kephalai (30 BC - AD 640)
- Βουκεφάλα (Boukephala: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Bucephala (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 C3 Boukephala
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Jalilpur? PAK
M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Boukephala: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59750> [accessed: 18 April 2024]
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