Alexandria in Ariana

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Coordinates: 34°14′33″N 62°26′57″E / 34.24245948736849, 62.44903564453125

Alexandria in Ariana was a city in what is now present-day Afghanistan, one of the seventy-plus cities founded or renamed by Alexander the Great. The third largest Afghan city, Herat, is the city's modern name.[1]

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