Misplaced Pages

This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find link tool for suggestions. (November 2023)

Xylinepolis or Xylenopolis (Greek: Ξυλίνη πόλις, meaning: wooden city/town) was a temporary military fortress (phrourion) in the naval base of Patala, founded in 325 BC by Alexander the Great. It is mentioned by Pliny the Elder. Alexander's admiral Nearchus stayed there for four months before his voyage.

William Woodthorpe Tarn argues that Pliny was mistaken in his reference to the town, and that Pliny's source merely mentioned an Error: {{Langx}}: transliteration of latn script (help), meaning a town made of wood. According to Tarn the town was therefore a pre-existing Indian town rather than one founded by Alexander.

See also

• List of cities founded by Alexander the Great

References

1. Conquest and empire By A. B. Bosworth Pages 140,249 ISBN 0-521-40679-X
2. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Xylenopolis
3. A compendium of ancient and modern geography, Arrowsmith Aaron, p.552
4. Woodthorpe Tarn, William. The Greeks in Bactria and India. Cambridge University Press. p. 244. ISBN 978-1108009416.

• Memoir on the Eastern Branch of the River Indus, Giving an Account of the Alterations Produced on It by an Earthquake, Also a Theory of the Formation of the Runn, and Some Conjectures on the Route of Alexander the Great; Drawn up in the Years 1827-1828, Lieutenant Alex, pp 586-587

External links

• Alexander the Great: his towns livius.org Archived 3 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine

This ancient Greece–related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This article about Pakistani history is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Military history of ancient Greece
• Cities founded by Alexander the Great
• Ancient Greece stubs
• Pakistani history stubs