Historical place profile
Boukephala
Boukephala or Bucephala was an ancient city founded on the right bank of the Hydaspes river by Alexander the Great following the battle with Porus. Alexander named the city after his warhorse, Bucephalus. Its precise location remains debated.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:59750
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:59750
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 32.688865, 73.447376
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Boukephala or Bucephala was an ancient city founded on the right bank of the Hydaspes river by Alexander the Great following the battle with Porus. Alexander named the city after his warhorse, Bucephalus. Its precise location remains debated.
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 6 C3 Boukephala
Source and reuse
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Research path
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