This Egyptian port city is named for the Macedonian king who founded it in 332 B.C.
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ancient Egypt - Macedonian and Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 bc ...  In the autumn of 332 bc Alexander the Great invaded Egypt with his mixed ... him an Egyptian parentage by linking his mother, Olympias, with the last king, Nectanebo II. ... was claimed by Ptolemy, son of a Macedonian nobleman named Lagus. ..... role of Alexandria as the major port and trading entrept was crucial: the city...
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Alexander the Great - Ancient History Encyclopedia  During the twenty-four years of his reign as King of Macedonia, in which he ... In 332 BCE he conquered Syria and then Egypt in 331 BCE, where he founded the ... named one of the two cities he founded after the battle "Bucephala" after him. ...... Alexander the Great founds Alexandria at the port town of Rhakotis in Egypt.
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Alexander the Great - Wikipedia  Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC  10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as ... He subsequently overthrew the Persian King Darius III and conquered the ... Alexander died in Babylon in 323 BC, the city he planned to establish as his .... He colonized it with Greeks, and founded a city named Alexandropolis.
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Ptolemaic Kingdom - Wikipedia  The Ptolemaic Kingdom was a Hellenistic kingdom based in Egypt. It was ruled by the Ptolemaic dynasty which started with Ptolemy I Soter's ... In 332 BC, Alexander the Great, King of Macedon invaded the Achaemenid ..... A major Mediterranean port of Egypt, in ancient times and still today, Alexandria was founded in 331...
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Alexandria, Egypt - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Alexandria is a port city on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt founded in 331 ... Syria in 332 BCE, Alexander the Great swept down into Egypt with his army. ... Under the Ptolemies, a line of Greek kings, Alexandria soon sprang into ...... a fellow Macedonian, who would found the Ptolemaic Dynasty in ancient Egypt.
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Lighthouse of Alexandria - Wikipedia  The Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria was a lighthouse ... In 332 BC Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria on an isthmus ... Finally the stubby remnant disappeared in 1480, when the then-Sultan of Egypt, Qaitbay, built a medieval fort on the larger platform of the lighthouse...
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Alexander the Great, Synopsys,JJP  Alexander was born at Pella in Macedonia in the late July of 356 BC, on the same day as the ... It is said he has been the first man that charged the Thebans' sacred band. .... In November 332 he reached Egypt, and the Egyptians welcomed him as their liberator. The Persian satrap Mazaces surrendered with no resistance.
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The Lighthouse at Alexandria: the Seventh Wonder of the Ancient ...  Jan 18, 2012 ... When Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt in 332 BCE, Pharos was a ... he proclaimed that a new capital city, Alexandria, was to be built there.
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Alexandria | Egypt | Britannica.com  Jun 22, 2016 ... ancient Egypt: The Ptolemies (305145 bc ) ... Designed by Alexander's personal architect, Dinocrates, the city incorporated the best in Hellenic planning and architecture. ... Blocked to the west by the port and the industrial area, urban .... Alexander the Great founded the city in 332 bce after the start of his...
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Macedonia (ancient kingdom) - Wikipedia  Macedonia or Macedon was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Classical Greece. and ... Prior to the fourth century BC, Macedonia was a small kingdom outside the area dominated by the great city-states .... Around the time of Alexander I of Macedon, the Argead Macedonians started to expand into Upper Macedonia,...
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330s BC - Wikipedia  Events[edit]. Contents: 339 BC 338 BC 337 BC 336 BC 335 BC 334 BC 333 BC 332 BC 331 ... The Persian general and vizier, the eunuch Bagoas, falls out of favour with King .... After conquering Thebes, Alexander demands the surrender of the .... Egyptian governors, while keeping the army under a separate Macedonian...
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Phoenicia, Phoenician Cities - A Bequest Unearthed, Phoenicia  Tyre was a major Phoenician seaport from about 2000 BC onwards through the ... in the history of Tyre was its resistance to the army of the Macedonian conqueror, ... took it after a seven-month siege in 332, using floating batteries and building a ... The town was conquered by the Crusaders after a famous siege lasting 47...
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Ptolemy I Soter | Macedonian king of Egypt | Britannica.com  Macedonian general of Alexander the Great, who became ruler of Egypt ... on the soil of the Alexandrian empire and only succumbed to the Romans in 30 bc. ... He was probably educated as a page at the royal court of Macedonia, where he ... seized part of the empire, and in 305 assumed the title of king of Macedonia.
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Suez Canal - History in the Headlines  Nov 17, 2014 ... ... and Red Seas was officially opened in a lavish ceremony at Egypt's Port Said. ... The Egyptian Pharaoh Senusret III may have built an early canal connecting the ... of Suez and building a canal from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. ... Planning for the Suez Canal officially began in 1854, when a French...
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Hellenism in Alexandria : Creating... - Cosmopolitan Alexandria ...  The Greek presence in Egypt can be traced back to the 8th century B.C., when ... a city that bears his name, but he was more concerned with changing the world"2. ... After Alexander founded the greatest metropolis in the Mediterranean region, the ... Now we move to the modern period and Muhammad Ali (1805-1848).
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Destruction Of Tyre by Alexander the Great and Nebuchadnezzar  On his way towards Egypt, Alexander led his Macedonian troops to victory at ... Tyre, the famous Phoenician seaport, is located 20 miles south of Sidon on the Mediterranean coast. ... After the destruction of Jerusalem and the carrying away of her king ... The seven month siege, from January to July 332 B.C., was over.
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Alexander the Great - Wikipedia  Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC  10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as ... At that point, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River. .... near Delphi, a sacrilege that gave Philip the opportunity to further intervene in Greek affairs. .... In spring 333 BC, Alexander crossed the Taurus into Cilicia.
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Alexander the Great - Wikipedia  Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC  10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as ... After Philip's assassination in 336 BC, Alexander succeeded his father to the ... Alexander died in Babylon in 323 BC, the city he planned to establish as his .... He colonized it with Greeks, and founded a city named Alexandropolis.
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History of Egypt - Wikipedia  The history of Egypt has been long and rich, due to the flow of the Nile river, with its fertile ... In 332 BC, Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great conquered Egypt as he ... A unified kingdom was founded 3150 BC by King Menes, leading to a series of ... A second period of disunity heralded the arrival of the first foreign ruling...
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Africa - Oxford Reference  The pharaoh Akhenaten creates a new capital city on the Nile at Tell el .... Ptolemy begins to transform Alexandria into a centre of Greek culture, founding his famous 'museum' and library ... defeat by a Roman army, at an unidentified site in north Africa called Zama ...... Go to Uganda in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.).
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History of Egypt - Wikipedia  The history of Egypt has been long and rich, due to the flow of the Nile river, with its fertile banks and delta. Its rich history also comes from its native inhabitants and outside influence. Much of Egypt's ancient history was a mystery until the secrets of ancient ... In 332 BC, Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great conquered Egypt as he...