Where Alexandria was
The ancient port city in Egypt's Nile Delta, founded by Alexander the Great in 332/331 BCE. Athenaeum places it in the West & North Africa region. The source gives a located position.
Periods the source attests
These are the historical periods in which the source records the place. A gap is not evidence that it was empty.
- Classical Greece
- Hellenistic world
- Roman world
- Late antiquity
Its names
The source lists these other names and spellings for Alexandria.
- ⲣⲁⲕⲟⲧⲉ
- Rakote
- al-İskandarīya
- al-Iskandariyya
- al-Iskandarīya, al-Iskandariya, al-Iskandariyah, el-Iskandariya, el-Iskandariyah, al-Iskandariyya, al-Iskandariyyah, el-Iskandariyya, el-Iskandariyyah
- Rhakōtis, Rhakotis
About the illustration
Generated historical interpretation. Not an archaeological reconstruction.
Questions about ancient Alexandria
Where does the information about Alexandria come from?
From the place's record in the Pleiades gazetteer, with its references, names and periods kept as the source gives them.
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