Alexandria Arachosia

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Alexandria located in the Iranian land of harauti known by the Greeks as Arachosia, was one of the seventy-plus cities founded or renamed by Alexander the Great. It is believed to be in proximity of modern day Quetta, Pakistan, and may have been Kandahar, Afghanistan. Arachosia is the Greek name of an ancient province of the Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian empires. The province of Arachosia corresponds to today's southeastern region of Afghanistan, and southwestern region of Pakistan the ethnic Pashtun territory.

Isidorus of Charax in his 1st century CE "Parthian stations" itinerary described an "Alexandropolis, the metropolis of Arachosia", which he said was still Greek even at such a late time:

"Beyond is Arachosia. And the Parthians call this White Arachosia (in reference to its people); there are the city of Biyt and the city of Pharsana and the city of Chorochoad and the city of Demetrias; then Alexandropolis, the metropolis of Arachosia; it is Greek, and by it flows the river Arachotus. As far as this place the land is under the rule of the Parthians."

—"Parthians stations", 1st century CE. Original text in paragraph 19 of Parthian stations

[edit] See also

• Kandahar

[edit] External links

• Alexander the Great: his towns

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