Alexandria (5) Eschate, 'the farthest'

Pierre Briant

doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.300

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Alexandria (5) Eschate

, 'the farthest'

Alexandria (5) Eschate

, 'the farthest'

Pierre Briant

https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.300
Published online: 22 December 2015

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Alexandria (5) Eschate (‘the farthest’), founded close to Cyreschata (mod. Leninabad/Khodjend) on the Syr-Darya (*Jaxartes), the largest of seven *‘Achaemenid' fortresses seized by *Alexander (3) the Great in this region. Renamed Antioch by *Antiochus (1) I.

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