Alexandria Hyphasis
Ancient city
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 31.678, 74.912
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Alexandria Hyphasis was the name of the fortress on the west bank of the Hyphasis (Beas) river at which Alexander the Great stopped on 31 Aug 326 BCE in the course of his Indian campaign.
History
Alexandria Hyphasis was the name of the fortress on the west bank of the Hyphasis (Beas) river at which Alexander the Great stopped on 31 Aug 326 BCE in the course of his Indian campaign. It was on the eastern border of Alexander's empire. Today, it is near Amritsar, part of Punjab, India.