Ara Alexandri
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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Sep 30, 2025 10:43 AM
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History
"Ara Alexandri", also known as "Arae Alexandri", is a toponym that refers to stelai erected to mark the northern limits of Alexander III of Macedon's territorial empire. The instance included by the Barrington Atlas compilers on map 6 corresponds to the instance included on the Peutinger map and also discussed in RE by Wilhelm Tomaschek. These markers were once found at the bend of the Iaxartes River (Syr Darya in Central Asia) to the east of the Caspian Sea. Pliny the Elder describes this place as lying beyond the Portus Macedonum in Carmania.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/60421
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (AD 300 - AD 640)
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- Ara alexandri (Ara Alexandri: Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- arae Alexandri (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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unlocated
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 Ara Alexandri
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M.U. Erdosy, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ara Alexandri: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/60421> [accessed: 11 February 2026]
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