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. Another nearby city was Alexandra Nicaea.
G.W.B. Huntingford identifies this Alexandria with a large mound west of Jhelum, a city 150 miles south east of Peshawar, Pakistan.
Alexandria Bucephalous is mentionned in the 1st century Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, as well as in the Roman Peutinger Table:
"The country inland of Barigaza is inhabited by numerous tribes, such as the Arattii, the Arachosii, the Gandaraei and the people of Poclais, in which is Bucephalus Alexandria"
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