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Alexandria Eschate (Attic Gr****: Ἀλεξάνδρεια Ἐσχάτη,
Doric Gr****: Αλεχάνδρεια Ἐσχάτα, romanized: Alexandria Eschata, "Furthest Alexandria") was a city...
- to the
Ferghana Valley,
controlled by the ****enistic
polis Alexandria Eschate (modern Khujand, Tajikistan),
which can
probably be
understood as "Greco-Fergana...
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being captured by
Alexander the
Great in 329 BC, it was
renamed Alexandria Eschate and has
since been part of
various empires in history,
including the Umayyad...
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called Alexandria,
including modern Kandahar in Afghanistan, and
Alexandria Eschate ("The Furthest") in
modern Tajikistan. The
campaign took
Alexander through...
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stretches back over 2,300 years, when
Alexander the
Great founded Alexandria Eschate at its
southwestern end.
Chinese chroniclers date its
towns to more than...
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abundance of
these settlements led to many
taking on
epithets such as
Eschate or Oxeiana. As some
settlements may have
taken on
multiple such sobriquets...
- of the
empire of
Alexander the Great, the city was
renamed Alexandria Eschate ("furthest Alexandria") in 329 BCE." Golden,
Peter B.
Central Asia in World...
- role in
propagating it to China.
Further east, the Gr****s of
Alexandria Eschate became known to the
Chinese people as the Dayuan.
Between 168 BC and 30...
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Alexandretta Antioch Apamea Alexandria Arachosia Alexandria Ariana Alexandria Eschate Alexandria in the
Caucasus Alexandria on the
Indus Alexandria Prophthasia...
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recorded an
account of a
journey northward in 325 BC, to a land he
called "
Eschate Thule",
where the Sun only set for
three hours each day and the
water was...
