List of cities founded by Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great founded, substantially re-established or renamed several towns and cities.

Map of the Macedonian Empire under Alexander III's command in the Classical antiquity period

They are[1] (with present-day locations):

Alexandropolis Maedica, in Thrace, modern Bulgaria.
Alexandria in Troas, modern Dalyan in Turkey.
Alexandria by the Latmus, possibly Alinda, Turkey.
Alexandria near Issus; İskenderun in Turkey preserves the name, but probably not the exact site.
Alexandria, Egypt.
Alexandria Ariana, now Herat, Afghanistan.
Alexandria Asiana, in Iran.
Alexandria Prophthasia, perhaps Farah, Afghanistan.
Alexandria Arachosia, now Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Alexandria in the Caucasus, now Bagram, Afghanistan.
Alexandria Eschate, at or close to modern Khujand, Tajikistan.
Alexandria on the Oxus, probably Ai-Khanoum, Afghanistan.
Six cities north of the Oxus, one of which may be Termez, Uzbekistan.
Alexandria in Margiana, formerly Merv, Turkmenistan.
Arigaeum, modern Nawagai, Bajaur, Pakistan.
Nicaea and Alexandria Bucephalous (Bucephala), somewhere in modern Punjab, Pakistan.
Alexandria on the Hyphasis; In Punjab, India on the western bank of the Beas (Hyphasis) river.
Alexandria on the Indus, possibly Uch, Pakistan, and another town on the Indus.
Patala and Xylinepolis, unknown, possibly near Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan.
Alexandria in Orietai near Rhambacia, possibly Bela, Pakistan.
Alexandria Carmania, unknown location in Iran.
Alexandria in Susiana, later Charax Spasinu, Persian Gulf.
Alexandria in Opiania, Ghazni, Afghanistan.
Nikephorion, present day Raqqa in Syria. Isidore of Charax, in the Parthian Stations, wrote that it was a Greek city founded by Alexander the Great.[2][3]

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