Alexandria Bucephalous
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Alexandria Bucephalous, or Bucephalia, was a city founded by Alexander the Great in memory of his beloved horse Bucephalus on the Jhelum River. Bucephalus had died after the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC.
G.W.B. Huntingford identifies this Alexandria with a large mound west of Jhelum, a city 150 miles south east of Peshawar, Pakistan.
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