Cities Around the Globe Founded by Alexander the Great

Greek reporter ^ | 13th August 2024 | Philip Chrysopoulos

[Cronos]

Alexander the Great, who lived from July 356 BC to June 323 BC, was an intrepid conqueror and one of the most brilliant military generals in history.

More importantly, however, he laid the cultural foundations for the establishment of the ancient Hellenistic world, all the way from Alexandria in Egypt to the borders of India.

By his own admission, Alexander endeavored to conquer lands all the way to the “ends of the world and the Great Outer Sea.” He and his legions invaded India in the year 326 BC, winning an important victory over the Pauravas at the Battle of the Hydaspes.

Alexandria, Egypt

Alexandria Arachosia, Afghanistan now Kandahar

Alexandria Ariana, Afghanistan now Herat

Alexandria on the Caucasus, Afghanistan now Bagram

[linMcHlp]

Bakersfield, CA

[chajin]

“Gaza City, Palestine

The last city to put up resistance on Alexander’s warpath to Egypt, the port city of Gaza was besieged by Alexander’s army for a period of five months in 332 BC, and his troops killed or took captive nearly all of its inhabitants.

Alexander then brought in local Bedouins to populate Gaza, and he then organized the city into a polis (or “city-state”), establishing the roots of Greek culture in the area. Soon afterward, Gaza earned a reputation as a flourishing center of Hellenic learning and philosophy.”

Then the Palestinians got a hold of it.

[linMcHlp]

Siege of Gaza (332 BC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Gaza_(332_BCE)

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Alexander succeeded in breaching the walls of Gaza by utilizing the engines that he had employed earlier that year, during the siege of Tyre. Following three unsuccessful assaults, the Macedonian army was able to storm and take the Gazan stronghold.

Batis, the military commander of Gaza’s fortress, expected to hold the city as well as the rest of Egypt in complete subjection until the raising of another army by Persian king Darius III; confronting Alexander at Gaza was crucial to denying the Macedonians a route into the Egyptian mainland.

The fortress was located on an eminence, on the edge of a desert from which the surrounding area could be easily controlled, including the main road from Assyria to Egypt.

The city, over 18 metres (60 ft) high, was traditionally employed to control the surrounding area, which, even then, was a hotbed of dissent.

Batis was aware that Alexander was leading his army southward after successfully conquering Tyre, and therefore provisioned Gaza for a long siege by the Macedonian army.

It is also likely that he was aware of Alexander’s intention to secure absolute control over the Mediterranean coast before mounting an invasion of the Persian mainland.

[KobraKai]

He was setting up franchises.

[BradyLS]

Alexandria, VA

LUFIJK! 😄

[Ezekiel]

Bakersfield, CA

I came here looking for something
I couldn't find anywhere else... ♪

[Bookshelf]

I lived in Alexandria, Egypt, which was a polyglot entrepot and one of the most interesting cities on earth (read L. Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet). Then Nasser, who could foul up a free lunch, decided to Arabize the city and cause a war with Israel. It has never been the same since.

[Ezekiel]

Circa 1990, a plane I was in landed in Alexandria for a quick stopover.

If the ‘scenery’ weren’t enough, stench of the slums permeated the cabin as we came in for the landing.

It was the kind of foul, sour, nauseating odor of squalor and decay that can challenge even the toughest stomachs.

That’s my memory of Alexandria, Egypt.

[Daveinyork]

You forgot the GREAT lakes😀

[Bookshelf]

Yes, those were the huge tenement buildings that Nasser built and stuffed with his Arab Union lowlifes. What was once the Med’s cleanest city became a sewer by the time you were there. Arabs do tolerate squalor quite nicely.

[MeanWestTexan]

Still trying to figure out how he got to Virginia

[Tennessee Nana]

PING

[Macho MAGA Man]

Somehow he made it to Alexandria, Louisiana north of Cajun country.

[Wilderness Conservative]

Greek glory days have been over for how many thousands of years? At least they still have stuffed grapes and young boys.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Very interesting. BUMP

[ArtDodger]

South Of The Border, Hamer, South Carolina
You never sausage a place!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the ping!

[Alter Kaker]

Bakersfield, CA

Even Alexander the Great made mistakes. See Also: Gaza City

[CitizenSailorChief]

Let us not forget how he laid waste to Thebes. See Victor Davis Hanson’s “the End of Everything.”