Alexandria in the Caucasus

Coordinates: 34°59′45″N 69°18′39″E / 34.99583°N 69.31083°E / 34.99583; 69.31083
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Alexandria in the Caucasus
Αλεξάνδρεια
Menander I coin
Alexandria in the Caucasus is located in Afghanistan
Alexandria in the Caucasus
Shown within Afghanistan
LocationAfghanistan
RegionParwan Province
Coordinates34°59′45″N 69°18′39″E / 34.99583°N 69.31083°E / 34.99583; 69.31083
TypeSettlement
History
BuilderAlexander the Great

Alexandria in the Caucasus (

colony at an important junction of communications in the southern foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains, in the country of the Paropamisadae.[1]

In Classical times, the Hindu Kush mountains were also designated as the "Caucasus"[2][3] in parallel to their Western equivalent, the Caucasus Mountains between Europe and Asia.

Alexander the Great

Ancient cities founded by Alexander the Great in Central and South Asia

Alexander populated the city with 7,000

king Cyrus the Great c. 500 BC, Alexandria being in fact a refoundation of an Achaemenid settlement called Kapisa.[3]

The

Eucratides.[4]

Indo-Greek capital

Alexandria of the Caucasus was one of the capitals of the

Indo-Greek kings (180 BC – AD 10).[4]

During the reign of

Sanskrit: Mahadharmaraksita), who is said to have come from “Alasandra” (thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus), with 30,000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka
:

From Alasanda the city of the Yonas came the thera (elder) Yona Mahadhammarakkhita with thirty thousand bhikkhus.[5]

Archaeology

Some

archaeological evidence concerning Alexandria of the Caucasus was gathered by Charles Masson (1800–1853), providing insight into the history of that lost city.[6] His findings include coins, rings, seals and other small objects. In the 1930s Roman Ghirshman, while conducting excavations near Bagram, found Egyptian and Syrian glassware, bronze statuettes, bowls, the Begram ivories and other objects including statues.[7] This is an indication that Alexander's conquests opened India to imports from the west
.

Today the cities' remains feature a rectangular

Afghan War
of the 21st century.

Further reading

See also

References

  1. ^ Curtius Rufus, Quintus (2007). The life and death of Alexander the Great, King of Macedon in ten books. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Text Creation Partnership. p. 281.
  2. ^ "Alexander in the Hindu Kush - Livius". www.livius.org. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  3. ^ a b "Alexandria in the Caucasus (Begram) - Livius". www.livius.org. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  4. ^
    ISBN 9780511707353
    , retrieved 2 November 2018
  5. ^ "THE MAHAVAMSA » 29: Beginning of the Great Thupa". mahavamsa.org. 8 October 2011. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  6. ISSN 1759-5134
    .
  7. ISBN 9789231040306
    .

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