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Alexandria in Arachosia was a city in ancient times that is now called Kandahar in Afghanistan. It was one of the seventy-plus cities founded or renamed by Alexander the Great. Arachosia is the Greek name of an ancient province of the Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian empires. The province of ''Arachosia'' corresponds to today's southeastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan, the ethnic Pashtun territory. Isidorus of Charax in his 1st century AD "Parthian stations" itinerary described an "Alexandropolis, the metropolis of Arachosia", which he said was still Greek even at such a late time: The remains of Alexandria in Arachosia are today found in the tell of Old Kandahar citidel in the western portion of the modern city. The citadel tell was excavated by the British ''Society for South Asian Studies'' through the 1970s and with the relative improvement in security from 2008–2009. These excavations indicate that the Islamic walls were based on those from classical times indicating what might be a square (tetragonis) shaped town, but one highly modified by the unusual topography. A triangular shaped portion of the tell adjoining the Greek town is from the Buddhist era. Alexander appears to have founded his town on the site of 6th century BC Persian garrison point. The pass, river and junction of three long distance trade routes made the location of strategic importance. To date, no Greek buildings have been found, but numerous coins, inscriptions and graves have been. Further discoveries are anticipated as excavation reaches deeper strata of the tell. The citadel walls have been shown to have contained circular towers similar to those at Farah, Balkh and Nadi Ali Sorkh Gdagh, although these could be Islamic in age. ==Gallery== File:Kandahar-1881.jpg|New Kandahar(1881) File:Ruins of old Kandahar Citadel in 1881.jpg|Ruins of Alexandria Arachosia(1881) File:The Surrender of Kandahar.jpg|Ruins of Alexandria Arachosia (1638) File:AsokaKandahar.jpg |Bilingual Asoka inscription from Kandahar 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexandria Arachosia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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