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	Top Literature - Alexandria Eschate
		Alexandria Eschate (Greek Ἀλεξάνδρεια Εσχάτη, “Alexandria the Furthest”) was founded by Alexander the Great in 329 BCE as his most advanced base in Central Asia.
		Alexandria Eschate is located to the north of Bactria, at the entrance to the Ferghana Valley.
		Alexandria Eschate was located around 300km north of Alexandria on the Oxus in Bactria, and being in Sogdian territory had to sustain numerous conflicts with the local population.
	encyclopedia.topliterature.com /?title=Alexandria_Eschate (399 words)

	Alexandria - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Alexandria is the name given to many of the cities founded by Alexander the Great.
		The most famous is Alexandria in Egypt, which is still a flourishing, cosmopolitan city on the shore of the Eastern Mediterranean, and has with some justification been called Alexander's "most lasting legacy".
		Alexandria on the Indus (February 325; Uch (http://www.livius.org/a/pakistan/uch/alexandria.html))
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Alexandria (189 words)

	Alexander the Great: the towns
		Alexandria by the Latmus: a town in Caria, maybe founded as a garrison or military settlement in the winter of 333.
		Alexandria on the Indus: founded in February 325 on the confluence of the Indus and the Acesines (Chenab), probably on the site of an older, Persian settlement.
		Alexandria in Carmania: if this city was founded by Alexander (and not by Seleucus), it must have been a permanent garrison founded in January 324.
	www.livius.org /aj-al/alexander/alexander_z2.html (803 words)

	Top Literature - Alexandria on the Oxus
		The city is located in the Kunduz area in northeastern Afghanistan, at the confluence of the Oxus river (today's Amu Darya) and the Kokcha river (lat N 37° 10' 10"; long E 69° 24' 30"), and at the doorstep of the Indian subcontinent.
		The region, irrigated by the Oxus, had a rich agricultural potential.
		The invading Indo-European nomads from the north (the Scythians and then the Yuezhi) crossed the Oxus and submerged Bactria about 135 B.C. It seems the city was totally abandoned between 130-120 BC following the Yuezhi invasion.
	encyclopedia.topliterature.com /?title=Alexandria_on_the_Oxus (1528 words)

	Alexandria on Oxus (Ai Khanum)
		Alexandria on Oxus: town founded by Alexander the Great, now called Ai Khanum in Afghanistan.
		It was a refoundation of an older, Persian city, and was settled with Greek and Iranian veterans, and native serfs.
		Alexandria is situated on the confluence of the mighty Amudar'ya (the ancient
	www.livius.org /aj-al/alexandria/alexandria_oxus.html (362 words)

	Alexandria (disambiguation) information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Alexandria is the name of many cities and towns in different countries.
		Alexandria, Gaea, a city-state in the fictional world of Tenebrae: the Emblem of Ea.
		The Alexandria class cruiser was a heavy cruiser in the anime Gundam series.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Alexandria_(disambiguation) (269 words)

	LEXANDRIA, general designation of cities whose foundation is credited to Alexander the Great (356-23 B
		Alexandria of Persis (inscription at Magnesia on the Maeander, OGIS N 233).
		Alexandria of Sacastene (Isidore of Charax 18; perhaps Stephanos Byzantinos 15).
		Alexandria of the Oxus (Ptolemy 6.12, and 6, where it is placed in Sogdiana).
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/v1f8/v1f8a033.html (565 words)

	Calvo Continued Extracts on Gnostic Elements in Chess
		In Sogdiana: Alexandria Eschate, 50 km to the NE of Tashkent, several toponoms point towards probable foundation by Alexander.
		Alexandria in the river Acesines (Cenab), near its confluence with the Indus.
		Alexandria Oxiane (in the Oxus: Djaybun) Alexandria Eschate, different from the other, in the upper Oxus superior, and other Alexandria in Bactria and Sogdiana are also evident.
	www.goddesschess.com /chessays/calvognosis2.html (7839 words)

	Travel Afghanistan
		To see the Oxus, that vast Central Asian river that never meets and ocean, has always been (for the British, at any rate) the ultimate test of an explorer’s mettle.
		And slowly following the Oxus downstream through rice fields, swimming in the river amongst clouds of dragonflies, accompanied by nomads and herds of Bactrian camels make this one of the most wonderful journeys I have ever made.
		We know from the remains of an enormous palace that the city was a royal one and Robin Lane Fox says that the city is almost certainly Alexandria-on-the-Oxus, which is good enough for me. (He cites the fact that the heroon is dedicated to a man called Kineas, a Thessalian name.
	www.travelafghanistan.co.uk /pages/balkh.html (835 words)

	Imperial Gurjars
		The Greek city of Alexandria on the Oxus was apparently burnt to the ground by the Yuezhi around 145 BCE.
		Although the request for an alliance was denied by the son of the slain Yuezhi king, who preferred to maintain peace in Transoxiana rather than to seek revenge, Zhang Qian made a detailed account, reported in the Shiji, that gives a lot of insight into the situation in Central Asia at that time.
		Although they remained north of the Oxus for a while, they apparently obtained the submission of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom to the south of the Oxus.
	www.gurjarindia.com /History/Yuezhi.html (2596 words)

	Alexandria Eschate - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Alexandria Eschate - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Alexandria Eschate contains research on
		Alexandria Eschate, A Hellenistic outpost in Central Asia, Contacts with China, References, 329 BC establishments, Cities named after Alexander the Great, Hellenistic colonies, Ancient Greek cities, Former countries in Asia, Hellenistic civilization, History of China and Ancient Greeks in Asia.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Alexandria_Eschate (453 words)

	Muhammad and the Spread of Islam by Sanderson Beck
		The patriarch of Alexandria responded to the apostle's letter by sending him treasure and two slave girls.
		Alexandria was besieged for fourteen months and succumbed in 642; but leaving it without an adequate garrison, the Muslims had to conquer the metropolis again in 645.
		Hajjaj sent his governor of Khurasan, Qutaybah, across the Oxus in 705 to conquer Balkh and Bukhara by 709, Khwarazm and Samarqand by 712, and Farghana by 713.
	www.san.beck.org /AB13-MuhammadandIslam.html (17317 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Ai-Khanoum
		“Moon Lady” in Uzbaki, probably the historical Alexandria on the Oxus), was founded in the 4th century BC, following the conquests of Alexander the Great.
		The city is located in the Kunduz area in northern Afghanistan, at the confluence of the Oxus river (today's Amu Darya) and the Kokcha river.
		The last Greco-Bactrian king Heliocles moved his capital from Balkh around 125 BC and resettled in the Kabul valley.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Alexandria_on_the_Oxus (325 words)

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		Alexander passed near but probably did not visit Jerusalem.\n\nIn 332 BC - 331 BC, Alexander was welcomed as a liberator in Egypt and was pronounced the son of Zeus by Egyptian priests of the god Ammon at the Oracle of the god at the Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert.
		The decoration of the carriage was very rich and is described in great detail by Diodoros.\n\nAccording to legend, Alexander was preserved in a clay vessel full of honey (which acts as a preservative) and interred in a glass coffin.
		The citizens of Alexandria were outraged at this and soon after Ptolemy IX was killed.
	www.mailhollywood.com /cel.php?viewCel=16171 (5058 words)

	Greco-Bactrian
		Their cities, such as Ai-Khanoum in northeastern Afghanistan (probably Alexandria on the Oxus) demonstrate a sophisticated Hellenistic urban culture.
		To the north, Euthydemus also ruled Sogdiana and Ferghana, and there are indications that from Alexandria Eschate the Greco-Bactrians may have led expeditions as far as Kashgar and Urumqi in Chinese Turkestan, leading to the first known contacts between China and the West around 220 BCE.
		It is not clear whether the incursion of the Yueh-Chih consisted in an invasion of the Greco-Bactrian territory, or possibly a resettlement in front of the Xiongnu attacks from the north, reminiscent of the Roman practice of the foederati.
	buddhism.2be.net /Greco-Bactrian (3371 words)

	Alexandria on Oxus - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Alexandria on Oxus - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)
		Alexandria on Oxus was founded, probably by Hephaestion, during Alexander the Great's campaigns in Bactria (329-327).
		It is almost certainly identical to modern Ai Khanum ("Lady Moon" in Uzbek) in northeast Afghanistan, a town that was excavated by French archaeologists and looks surprisingly like a Greek city.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Alexandria_on_Oxus (105 words)

	The Forgotten Realm of Alexander
		By 330, however, the Persian king Darius was dead and his murderer, Bessus, had usurped the throne and fled into the empire's easternmost province of Bactria-Sogdiana.
		North of the Oxus--the ancient sources are unclear exactly where--the land of the Bactrians ended and that of the Sogdians began, and it was here in Sogdiana, encompassed today by most of Uzbekistan and a bit of Tajikistan, that Alexander's fortunes changed.
		He successfully pursued Bessus across the Oxus, capturing and executing him, and took the Persian crown for himself in 329.
	www.archaeology.org /0411/abstracts/alexander.html (804 words)

	AardvarkArticles.net - History - Alexander The Great
		He founded Alexandria in Egypt, which would become the famous capital of the Ptolemaic dynasty after his death.
		During this time, Alexander adopted some elements of Persian dress and customs at his court, notably the custom of proskynesis, a symbolic kissing of the hand that Persians paid to their social superiors, but a practice of which the Greeks disapproved.
		After the battle of Kurypedion, Seleucus went to Macedonia and was killed by Ptolemaios Keraunos ("the thunder"), a son of Ptolemaios of Egypt, who escaped from Alexandria.
	www.aardvarkarticles.net /history_48/alexander_the_great_1048.html (4265 words)

	Greco-Buddhist art: Encyclopedia II - Greco-Buddhist art - Greco-Buddhist art expansion in Central Asia
		Bactria was under direct Greek control for more than two centuries from the conquests of Alexander the Great in 332 BCE to the end of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom around 125 BCE.
		The art of Bactria was almost perfectly Hellenistic as shown by the archaeological remains of Greco-Bactrian cities such as Alexandria on the Oxus (Ai-Khanoum), or the nu...
		The art of Bactria was almost perfectly Hellenistic as shown by the archaeological remains of Greco-Bactrian cities such as Alexandria on the Oxus (Ai-Khanoum), or the numismatic art of the Greco-Bactrian kings, often considered as the best of the Hellenistic world, and including the largest silver and gold coins ever minted by the Greeks.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Greco-Buddhist_art_-_Greco-Buddhist_art_expansion_in_Central_Asia/id/5074067 (582 words)

	Alexandria Eschate - China-related Topics AI-AL - China-Related Topics
		Alexandria Eschate - China-related Topics AI-AL - China-Related Topics
		, ???Alexandria the Furthest???) was founded by Alexander the Great in 329 BCE as his most advanced base in Central Asia.
		Image:EuthydemusI.jpgrightthumb200pxCoin depicting the Greco-Bactrian king Euthydemus (230-200 BCE) Alexandria Eschate was located around 300km north of Ai-KhanoumAlexandria on the Oxus in Bactria, and being in SogdianaSogdian territory had to sustain numerous conflicts with the local population.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Alexandria_Eschate (424 words)

	RADIO TASHKENT International. Culture and art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Every nation continued to have its own lifestyle, traditional cults and deities.
		During the international Toharist expedition while making archaeological excavations in the city of Kampirtepa, being identified with legendary Alexandria on the Oxus in spring of 2003, Uzbek scientists made a sensational discovery.
		Near the gates of city citadel the ruins of Kushani Buddhist sanctuary were found.
	ino.uzpak.uz /eng/cult_art_eng/cult_art_eng_2907.html (430 words)

	Yuezhi - Definition, explanation
		The Yuezhi crossed the neighbouring urban civilization of the Ta-Yuan in Ferghana, and settled on the northern bank of the Oxus, in the region of Transoxonia, in modern-day Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, just north of the Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian kingdom.
		Zhang Qian, who spent a year with the Yuezhi and in Bactria, relates that "the Great Yuezhi live 2,000 or 3,000 li (1,000-1,500 kilometers) west of Dayuan (Ferghana), north of the Gui (Oxus) river.
		In a sweeping analysis of the physical types and cultures of Central Asia that he visited in 126 BCE, Zhang Qian reports that "although the states from Dayuan west to Anxi (Parthia), speak rather different languages, their customs are generally similar and their languages mutually intelligible.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/y/yu/yuezhi.php (2293 words)

	Travel Spot :: Visit Ancient Persia, Greece, and North Cyprus with Clearchus of Soli (Page 2 of 2)
		Stasanor asked me to help Kineas found a city, Alexandria on the Oxus, which is now Ai Khanum on the Amu Darya River, in Afghanistan.
		Stasanor’s old friend Thais had taken up with Ptolemy, and their daughter was married to Soli’s King, Eunostus.
		She got me an appointment to Ptolemy’s great Library in Alexandria in Egypt.
	www.articlebiz.com /article/23395-2-visit-ancient-persia-greece-and-north-cyprus-with-clearchus-of-soli (709 words)

	Chronology of Gurdjieff's Life
		As a courier of the Armenian protectionist society, the Armenakans, G. sets out with Pogossian for Kurdistan, quixotically resolved to 'find the Sarmoung'.
		En route however, his chance discovery near Zakho of a 'map of pre-sand Egypt' diverts him circuitously to Alexandria (where Pogossian leaves him).
		In dervish disguise he and Skridlov travel up the river Amu Darya (Oxus) into Kafiristan.
	www.gurdjieff.org.uk /gs9.htm (4302 words)

	★ Reviews of books about middle east
		This book is full of anecdotes and observations of life before the western influence destroyed much of it's colour and variety.
		I found some of the narrations of life in Cairo and Alexandria especially interesting - like the flooding of the Nile and the ritual of draining the river into a canal in Cairo - not done anymore since the construction of the Aswan dam.
		The narratives on the monasteries visited, some of which were in strange places, were colourful and I wonder what remains of some of these places now.
	middle_east.vacationbookreview.com /middle_east_90.html (1258 words)

	Html Code: Visit Ancient Persia, Greece, and North Cyprus with Clearchus of Soli - ArticleTrader
		Stasanor asked me to help Kineas found a city, Alexandria on the Oxus, which is now Ai Khanum on the Amu Darya River, in Afghanistan. I helped Kineas lay out the city where the Amu Darya meets the Kokcha River.
		King Seleucus was campaigning against Chandragupta there, and I was with him, trying to safeguard Stasanor’s interests. Finally, I returned to Alexandria on Oxus.
		She got me an appointment to Ptolemy’s great Library in Alexandria in Egypt. All went well until I defended the persecuted Jews.
	www.articletrader.com /travel/visit-ancient-persia-greece-and-north-cyprus-with-clearchus-of-soli_html.html (1194 words)

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