Alexander's Empire c. 323 B.C. Route of Alexander and his armies Major battle site EUROPE Danube Piter Balkan Peninsula 20°E MACEDON, Pella 40°N GREECE Aegean Chaeronea Thebes 338 BC Sea Athens THRACE Rhodes Crete Mediterranean Sea AFRICA ⒸeMapshop Sardis CYRENAICA Alexandria Oracle of Zeus-Ammon Granicus 334 B.C. Gordium 30°E EGYPT Nile River 20°E Cyprus Asia Minor Memphis PHOENICIA Tyre Gaza Black Sea 40°N GREECE Crete LIBYA Antioch LIBYAN DESERT کر Balkan Peninsula MACEDONIA Red Sea Danube Picer Ephesus Issus 333 B. Rhodes ⒸeMapshop SYRIA 0 THRACE 0 LYDIA ARABIAN PENINSULA Sardis Miletus 30°E Memphis Nikephorion CAUCASUS MTS. Persian Empire, c. 486 B.C. ARMENIA Tigris R EGYPT Euphrates R. Babylon City founded by Alexander Gaugamela 331 B.C. Shatt-al-Arab Alexandria Arbela Ecbatana, 250 250 500 km Halys R Black Sea Red Sea Asia Minor TAURUS MTS. Susa Cyprus Mediterranean Sea Sidon Damascus Tyre 500 mi 50°E CAPPADOCIA Jerusalem Capital city Harran ASSYRIA Mesopotamia Caspian Sea Persian Gulf PERSIAN EMPIRE Tigris Ri Euphrates River ARMENIA SYRIAN DESERT Babylon Alexandria Pasargadae Prophthasia Persepolis Arbela ASIA ZAGROS MTS Shati- al-Arab ARABIAN PENINSULA CAUCASUS MTS. (Amu Darya Royal Road Alexandria PARTHIA Alexandria Persian Gulf Alexandropolis 60°E Aral Sea Oxus River Caspian Sea MEDIA *Ecbatana Alexandria Arabian Sea Alexandria ELBURZ MTS. Rhagae (summer capital) Susa (winter capital) Jaxartes River (Syr Darya) Alexandria on the Caucasus PLATEAU OF IRAN Aspadana BACTRIA PERSIA Alexandria PARTHIA SAGARTIA Alexandria Eschate Alexandria Patala HINDU KUSH Kabul Bucephala Nicaea Indus River Alexandria Aral Sea Pasargadae *Persepolis (ceremonial capital) HIMALAYAS (Amu Darya Oxus River INDIA ⒸGeoNova Jaxartes River (Syr Darya) SOGDIANA BACTRIA Helmand River HINDU KUS GANDHAR ARACHOSIA Indus INDIA
Alexander's Empire c. 323 B.C. Route of Alexander and his armies Major battle site EUROPE Danube Piter Balkan Peninsula 20°E MACEDON, Pella 40°N GREECE Aegean Chaeronea Thebes 338 BC Sea Athens THRACE Rhodes Crete Mediterranean Sea AFRICA ⒸeMapshop Sardis CYRENAICA Alexandria Oracle of Zeus-Ammon Granicus 334 B.C. Gordium 30°E EGYPT Nile River 20°E Cyprus Asia Minor Memphis PHOENICIA Tyre Gaza Black Sea 40°N GREECE Crete LIBYA Antioch LIBYAN DESERT کر Balkan Peninsula MACEDONIA Red Sea Danube Picer Ephesus Issus 333 B. Rhodes ⒸeMapshop SYRIA 0 THRACE 0 LYDIA ARABIAN PENINSULA Sardis Miletus 30°E Memphis Nikephorion CAUCASUS MTS. Persian Empire, c. 486 B.C. ARMENIA Tigris R EGYPT Euphrates R. Babylon City founded by Alexander Gaugamela 331 B.C. Shatt-al-Arab Alexandria Arbela Ecbatana, 250 250 500 km Halys R Black Sea Red Sea Asia Minor TAURUS MTS. Susa Cyprus Mediterranean Sea Sidon Damascus Tyre 500 mi 50°E CAPPADOCIA Jerusalem Capital city Harran ASSYRIA Mesopotamia Caspian Sea Persian Gulf PERSIAN EMPIRE Tigris Ri Euphrates River ARMENIA SYRIAN DESERT Babylon Alexandria Pasargadae Prophthasia Persepolis Arbela ASIA ZAGROS MTS Shati- al-Arab ARABIAN PENINSULA CAUCASUS MTS. (Amu Darya Royal Road Alexandria PARTHIA Alexandria Persian Gulf Alexandropolis 60°E Aral Sea Oxus River Caspian Sea MEDIA *Ecbatana Alexandria Arabian Sea Alexandria ELBURZ MTS. Rhagae (summer capital) Susa (winter capital) Jaxartes River (Syr Darya) Alexandria on the Caucasus PLATEAU OF IRAN Aspadana BACTRIA PERSIA Alexandria PARTHIA SAGARTIA Alexandria Eschate Alexandria Patala HINDU KUSH Kabul Bucephala Nicaea Indus River Alexandria Aral Sea Pasargadae *Persepolis (ceremonial capital) HIMALAYAS (Amu Darya Oxus River INDIA ⒸGeoNova Jaxartes River (Syr Darya) SOGDIANA BACTRIA Helmand River HINDU KUS GANDHAR ARACHOSIA Indus INDIA
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