Historical place profile
Ai Khanoum (Alexandria Oxiana?)
Ai Khanoum is an archaeological site near the modern town of Dast-i-Qal'a in Afghanistan's Takhar Province. It is probably to be identified with the attested name "Alexandria Oxiana" (Alexandria on Oxus), which was founded in the fourth century BCE in the wake of the campaigns of Alexander the Great. It was a chief city of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom, but was abandoned around 145 BCE.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:971693
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:971693
- Place type
- hill, settlement
- Coordinates
- 37.165852, 69.412137
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Ai Khanoum is an archaeological site near the modern town of Dast-i-Qal'a in Afghanistan's Takhar Province. It is probably to be identified with the attested name "Alexandria Oxiana" (Alexandria on Oxus), which was founded in the fourth century BCE in the wake of the campaigns of Alexander the Great. It was a chief city of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom, but was abandoned around 145 BCE.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 99 D2 Alexandria Oxiana?
Source and reuse
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