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Jul 18, 2023 · Alexandria is a port city on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt founded in 331 BCE by Alexander the Great. It was the site of the Pharos (lighthouse), one of the seven wonders of the ancient world...
- Joshua J. Mark
Oct 24, 2024 · Alexandria, major city and urban governorate in Egypt. Once among the greatest cities of the Mediterranean world and a center of Hellenic scholarship and science, Alexandria was the capital of Egypt from its founding by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE until its surrender to Arab forces in 642 CE.
Oct 24, 2024 · Alexander the Great founded the city in 332 bce after the start of his Persian campaign; it was to be the capital of his new Egyptian dominion and a naval base that would control the Mediterranean.
Oct 19, 2024 · The turbulent history of Egypt in the Byzantine period can largely be understood in terms of the struggles of the successive (or, after 570, coexisting) patriarchs of Alexandria to maintain their position both within their patriarchy and outside it in relation to Constantinople.
Alexandria is a port city on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt founded in 331 BCE by Alexander the Great. It was the site of the Pharos (lighthouse), one of the seven wonders of the ancient world...
- Joshua J. Mark
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Jun 1, 2012 · Alexandria: The Byzantine Period. It is with the ascension of the Roman emperor Constantine that a new era began for Alexandria, as well as for the Empire as a whole.
Alexandria suffers a double blow in the 7th century. First it falls victim to the final struggle between the Persian and Byzantine empires, being captured by the Persians in 616. Then, after a siege lasting more than a year, it is taken without bloodshed in 642 by the Arabs in their first great wave of expansion.
