Alexandria Oxiana?
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: F.T. Hiebert, P.L. Kohl Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: F.T. Hiebert, P.L. Kohl Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Nov 30, 2016 08:34 AM
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History
Alexandria Oxiana? or Alexandria on Oxus (Ai-Khanoum) was founded in the fourth century B.C. in the wake of the campaigns of Alexander the Great. It was a chief city of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/971693
37.163626, 69.411854
- DARMC location 19952 (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Less than certain: Alexandria Oxiana (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Ay Khānom (Uzbek, AD 1453 - Present)
- Uncertain: Εὐκρατίδεια (Eukratideia: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 100 BC)
- Alexandria Oxiana? connection Oxus (river) (unspecified date range)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 99 D2 Alexandria Oxiana?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ai Khanoum/Barbarah AFG
F.T. Hiebert, P.L. Kohl, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Alexandria Oxiana?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/971693> [accessed: 09 December 2018]
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