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ID: 6000180
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6000180
Record Type:
administrative
Alexandria Eschate (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 15 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 069 38 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 69.6330
decimal degrees
Note:
Was founded on Jaxartes river near modern Khujand; Alexander supervised the construction of the walls; he settled Greek mercenaries & Macedonian troops here; town was later rebuilt by Antiochos I.
Names:
Alexandria Eschate
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
name describes the site as the outermost (eschate) fortress of Alexander the Great
Alexandria Eschata
(
C
,
V
)
Alexandreschata
(
C
,
V
)
Alexandria Ultima
(
C
,
V
)
Alexandria-ad-Tanais
(
C
,
V
)
Ἀλεξάνδρεια Ἐσχάτη
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
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Tojikiston
(nation) (
P
)
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Sughd
(province) (
P
)
................
Alexandria Eschate
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 329 BC
archaeological site (
C
)
inhabited place (
H
)
fortification (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ἀλεξάνδρεια Ἐσχάτη..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Alexandreschata..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
336
Alexandria-ad-Tanais..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
39
Alexandria Eschata..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
...................................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
336
Alexandria Eschate..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...................................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 513
...................................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
39
Alexandria Ultima..........
[
VP
]
................................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 513
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
39
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
336
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
..........
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
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