ALEXANDRIA, (an. geog.) a city of Arachosia, called also Alexandropolis, on the river Arachotus, (Stephanus, Isidorus Characenus.)—Another Alexandria in Gedrosia, built by Leonatus, by order of Alexander, (Pliny.)—A third Alexandria in Aria, situated at the lake Arias, (Ptolemy); but, according to Pliny, built by Alexander on the river Arius.—A fourth in the Bactriana, (Pliny.)—A fifth Alexandria, an inland town of Carmania, (Pliny, Ptolemy, Ammian.)—A sixth Alexandria, or Alexandropolis, in the Sogdiana, (Isidorus Characenus.)—A seventh in India, at the confluence of the Acesines and Indus, (Arrian.)—An eighth called also Alexandretta near the Sinus Issicus, on the confines of Syria and Cilicia, now Scanderoon*, the port-town to Aleppo.—A ninth Alexandria of Margiana, which being demolished by the barbarians, was rebuilt by Antiochus the son of Seleucus, and called Antiochia of Syria, (Pliny); watered by the river Margus, which is divided into several channels, for the purposes of watering the country, which was called Zotals. The city was seventy stadia in circuit, according to Pliny; who adds, that, after the defeat of Crassus, the captives were conveyed to this place by Orodes, the king of the Parthians.—A tenth, of the Oxiana, built on the Oxus by Alexander, on the confines of Bactria, (Pliny.)—An eleventh, built by Alexander at the foot of mount Paropamisus, which was called Caucasus, (Pliny, Arrian.)—A twelfth Alexandria in Troas, called also Troas and Antigonion, (Pliny.)—A thirteenth, on the Iaxartes, the boundary of Alexander's victories towards Scythia, and the last that he built on that side.