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Alexander the
Great conquered Samarkand in 329 BC. The city was
known as
Maracanda (Μαράκανδα) by the Gr****s.
Written sources offer small clues as to the...
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calendar era
became the
prevalent method in
Europe for
naming years. At
Maracanda,
Alexander murders Cleitus, one of his most
trusted commanders, friend...
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Lennia maracanda, the
scarce large recluse, is a
species of
butterfly in the
family Hesperiidae. It is
found in
Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola...
- (Artaxerxes V),
Persian resistance to
Alexander the
Great ceases. From
Maracanda,
Alexander advances through Cyropolis to the
Jaxartes river, the boundary...
- on 2
February 2023.
Retrieved 17
January 2021. Grenet,
Frantz (2004). "
Maracanda/Samarkand, une métropole pré-mongole". Annales. Histoire,
Sciences Sociales...
- a
banquet during a
feast day for
Dionysus in the
satrapial palace at
Maracanda (what is now the city of Samarkand). At this
banquet a
dispute arose between...
- Granicus,
Cleitus the Black,
during a
violent drunken altercation at
Maracanda (modern day
Samarkand in Uzbekistan), in
which Cleitus accused Alexander...
- (Artaxerxes V),
Persian resistance to
Alexander the
Great ceases. From
Maracanda,
Alexander advances through Cyropolis to the
Jaxartes river, the boundary...
-
Eurasian nomads. Dani &
Bernard 1994, p. 70 "Initially
Alexander occupied Maracanda (Samarkand), the
royal summer residence of Sogdiana. Then,
worried about...
- of Sogdia,
Spitamenes led a
revolt and
besieged the
Sogdian capital of
Maracanda. A
Scythian incursion into
Sogdia prevented Alexander from responding...
