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Abydus (Çanakkale)
Abydus: city on the southeastern shore of the Hellespont, modern Çanakkale.Abydus, already mentioned by Homer in the Iliad, note[Homer, Iliad 2.836.] was an important Greek city on a promontory on the southeastern bank of the Hellespont. That it was easy to…Acragas (Agrigento)
Acragas (Greek Ἀκράγας): Greek town in southern Sicily, modern Agrigento. The so-called Temple of Concord Situated more or less in the center…Adana
Adana: town in Cilicia. Adana, bust of Hadrian Originally, Adana used to be less important a city than nearby Tarsus, which had…Aegina
Aegina (Greek Αίγινα): main island in the Saronic Gulf, south of Athens and east of Corinth.Early History Aegina, Tombstone of a young man, holding…
Afrosiab, seen from Samarkand's observatory |
Agrigento: sights
Acragas (Ἀκράγας): Greek town in southern Sicily, modern Agrigento. The so-called Temple of the Dioscuri Acragas had two building phases: the sixth-fifth century, and…Ai Khanum
Ai Khanum: town founded by one of the successors of Alexander the Great in Afghanistan. The ruins from Ai Khanum From literary sources,…
The ruins from Ai Khanum |
Ai Khanum, Map |
Ailana (Akaba)
Ailana (Greek Αἴλανα): ancient port on the Red Sea, modern Akaba in southern Jordan. There are several related names for this town, all derived from Semitic ayil, "palm tree".Early History …Alexander's City Foundations
Alexander Alexander's biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea states that Alexander the Great founded no less than seventy towns, which were important centers…Alexandria
Alexandria: town founded by Alexander the Great, capital of the Ptolemaic Empire.Hellenistic History Alexander the Great as founder of Alexandria The site…