Alexandria on the Caucasus in the context of "Kapiśi"

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⭐ Core Definition: Alexandria on the Caucasus

Alexandria in the Caucasus (Ancient Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια Alexándreia; medieval Kapisa, modern Bagram) was a colony of Alexander the Great. It was one of many colonies designated with the name "Alexandria". He founded the colony at an important junction of communications in the southern foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains, in the country of the Paropamisadae.

In Classical times, the Hindu Kush mountains were also designated as the "Caucasus", specifically as "Caucasus Indicus" (Ancient Greek: Καύκασος Ινδικός) in parallel to their Western equivalent, the Caucasus Mountains between Europe and Asia.

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👉 Alexandria on the Caucasus in the context of Kapiśi

The Kingdom of Kapisa, appearing in contemporary Chinese sources as Caoguo () and Jibin (罽賓), was a state located in what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan during the late 1st millennium. Its capital was the city of Kapisa. The kingdom stretched from the Hindu Kush in the north to Bamiyan and Kandahar in the south and west, out as far as the Kunar valley the east.

The name Kapisa appears to be a Sanskritized form of an older name for the area, from prehistory. Following its conquest in 329 BC by Alexander the Great, Bagram and the surrounding area were known in the Hellenic world as Alexandria on the Caucasus in reference to the Hindu Kush as the "Indic Caucasus", although the older name appears to have survived.

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