The area of Carmania where the Alexandria Carmania was located, noted with red colour on the map of the Empire of Alexander the Great
Country
Iran
Founded by
Alexander the Great
For other uses of "Alexandria", see Alexandria (disambiguation).
Alexandria Carmania (Greek: Αλεξάνδρεια η εν Καρμανία, Alexandreia hē en Karmania) was one of the seventy-plus cities founded or renamed by Alexander the Great.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
The town was founded by Alexander in January 324 BC after his army had reunited with Nearchus and his men who had beached their boats near the mouth of the Minab River.[8][9][10]
^Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia, University of California Press 2013 page 200
^William Woodthorpe Tarn, The Greeks in Bactria and India (Cambridge University Press, 2010) p481.
^P. Leriche, “Alexandria,”, Encyclopædia Iranica, I/8, pp. 830-831.
^J. G. Droysen, Geschichte des Hellenismus, (1878).
^V. Tscherikower, Die hellenistischen Städtegrunden, (1927).
^E. Badian, Alexander the Great, (1950).
^G. A. Koshelenko, Grecheskiĭ polis na ellinisticheskom vostoke, (1979.)
^Ammianus Marcellinus XXIII 48
^Ptolemy VI 8 14
^Pliny, Natural History 6. 107 110
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