Alexandria's founded by Alexander the Great (by year BC): 334 Alexandria in Troia (Turkey) - 333 Alexandria at Issus/Alexandrette (Iskenderun, Turkey) - 332 Alexandria of Caria/by the Latmos (Alinda, Turkey) - 331 Alexandria Mygdoniae - 331 Alexandria (Egypt) - 330 Alexandria Ariana (Herat, Afghanistan) - 330 Alexandria of the Prophthasia/in Dragiana/Phrada (Farah, Afghanistan) - 330 Alexandria in Arachosia (Kandahar, Afghanistan) - 330 Alexandria in the Caucasus (Begram, Afghanistan) - 329 Alexandria of the Paropanisades (Ghazni, Afghanistan) - 329 Alexandria Eschate or Ultima (Khodjend, Tajikistan) - 329 Alexandria on the Oxus (Termez, Afghanistan) - 328 Alexandria in Margiana (Merv, Turkmenistan) - 326 Alexandria Nicaea (on the Hydaspes, India) - 326 Alexandria Bucephala (on the Hydaspes, India) - 325 Alexandria Sogdia - 325 Alexandria Oreitide - 325 Alexandria in Opiene / Alexandria on the Indus (confluence of Indus & Acesines, India) - 325 Alexandria Rambacia (Bela, Pakistan) - 325 Alexandria Xylinepolis (Patala, India) - 325 Alexandria in Carminia (Gulashkird, Iran) - 324 Alexandria-on-the-Tigris/Antiochia-in-Susiana/Charax (Spasinou Charax on the Tigris, Iraq) - ?Alexandria of Carmahle? (Kahnu)
Sunday, June 13, 2021
The history of Babylon in a nutshell
World History
Encyclopediarecently posted a YouTube
video retelling the history of Babylon
in a nutshell. It gives afascinating
and concise overview covering thousands of years of the city’s existence.
A striking detail, in my eyes, is a cuneiform
cylinder holding an inscription of Nebuchadnezzar
II, on which he describes the construction of the outer city wall of Babylon.
This event is dated to ca. 604-562 BC. At first glance, one can take it for the
cylinder of Cyrus the Great written
in 539 BC telling his conquest of Babylon (see: The Cyrus cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning) .
It is tempting to believe that the Nebuchadnezzar
cylinder inspired Cyrusto
commemorate his own great deeds.
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