Alexandria Arachosia
Ancient city · Afghanistan
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 31.602, 65.659
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient Greek city, site of modern-day Kandahar, Afghanistan
History
Alexandria in Arachosia, also known as Alexandropolis (Ἀλεξανδρόπολις), was a city in ancient times that is now called Kandahar in Afghanistan. It was one of more than twenty cities founded or renamed by Alexander the Great. It was founded around 330 BC, on the foundations of an earlier Achaemenid fortress. Arachosia is the Greek name of an ancient province of the Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian empires. The province of Arachosia was centered around the Argandab valley in Kandahar. It did not reach the Hindu Kush, but it apparently extended east as far as the Indus River, although its exact extents are not yet clear.