Ai Khanoum (Alexandria Oxiana?)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: F.T. Hiebert, P.L. Kohl
Creators: F.T. Hiebert, P.L. Kohl
Contributors:
WHG, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Wikidata contributors, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, Andy Meadows, R. Talbert, Vici.org contributors
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Dec 06, 2025 09:05 AM
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History
Ai Khanoum is an archaeological site near the modern town of Dast-i-Qal'a in Afghanistan's Takhar Province. It is probably to be identified with the attested name "Alexandria Oxiana" (Alexandria on Oxus), which was founded in the fourth century BCE in the wake of the campaigns of Alexander the Great. It was a chief city of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom, but was abandoned around 145 BCE.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/971693
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- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: Ai Khanoum (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Alexandria Oxiana (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Oyxonim (Ay Khānom: In Latin characters Uzbek, AD 1453 - Present)
- Uncertain: Εὐκρατίδεια (Eukratideia: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 100 BC)
- Uncertain: اروکرتیه (Ārūkratīya: Uzbek, 330 BC - 100 BC)
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- Barbarah (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Ai Khanoum (Alexandria Oxiana?) located on Oxus (river) (unspecified date range)
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settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 99 D2 Alexandria Oxiana?
- Ball 2019 Site catalogue 18: Aï KHANOUM
- Bernard 1978
- EncIran (online) ĀY ḴĀNOM (P. Bernard)
- Fraser 1996 153-56
- Livius.org Ai Khanum
- Martinez-Sève 2015
- New Pauly Ai Khanum (K. Karttunen)
- New Pauly Alexandria [12] Ai Khanum (B. Brentjes)
- Nikolaou 2023
- Wikipedia (English) Ai-Khanoum
- See Also:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 99 D2 Alexandria Oxiana?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ai Khanoum/Barbarah AFG
F.T. Hiebert, P.L. Kohl, WHG, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Wikidata contributors, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, Andy Meadows, R. Talbert, and Vici.org contributors, 'Ai Khanoum (Alexandria Oxiana?): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/971693> [accessed: 09 December 2025]
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