List of cities founded by Alexander the Great

Map of the Macedonian Empire under Alexander III command in the Classical antiquity period

Alexander the Great founded, or substantially re-established, or renamed, several towns or cities.

They are^[1] (with present-day locations):

• Alexandropolis Maedica, in Thrace, modern Bulgaria.
• Alexandria in Troas, modern Dalyan in Turkey.
• Alexandria by the Latmus, possibly Alinda, Turkey.
• Alexandria near Issus; İskenderun in Turkey preserves the name, but probably not the exact site.
• Tyre, Lebanon.
• Gaza City, Palestine.
• Alexandria, Egypt.
• Alexandria Ariana, now Herat, Afghanistan.
• Alexandria Prophthasia, perhaps Farah, Afghanistan.
• Alexandria Arachosia, now Kandahar, Afghanistan.
• Alexandria on the Caucasus, now Bagram, Afghanistan.
• Alexandria Eschate, at or close to modern Khujand, Tajikistan.
• Alexandria on the Oxus, probably Ai-Khanoum, Afghanistan.
• Six cities north of the Oxus, one of which may be Termez, Uzbekistan.
• Alexandria in Margiana, formerly Merv, Turkmenistan.
• Arigaeum, modern Nawagai, Bajaur, Pakistan.
• Nicaea and Alexandria Bucephalous (Bucephala), somewhere in modern Punjab, Pakistan.
• Alexandria on the Hyphasis; Hyphasis is the modern Beas River, India.
• Alexandria on the Indus, possibly Uch, Pakistan, and another town on the Indus.
• Patala and Xylinepolis, unknown, possibly near Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan.
• Alexandria in Orietai near Rhambacia, possibly Bela, Pakistan.
• Alexandria Carmania, unknown location in Iran.
• Alexandria in Susiana, later Charax Spasinu, Persian Gulf.
• Alexandria in Opiania, Ghazni, Afghanistan.

See also

• Chronology of the expedition of Alexander the Great into Asia

References