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Author: * Kallistos Alexandros -
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Date: Aug 7, 2007 - 16:12
I don't know about Nearchos founding anything there. Conventional wisdom is that Alexander founded the city by putting a military outpost there on his way to India. The Greeks called the island Icaria after the Mediterranean island of the same name. It is most certainly strategically placed to serve well both for India and Arabia. If Alexander put a fort there, Nearchos would have done well to use it in his ill fated attempts to circumnavigate The Arabian Penninsula and it would still have been there at the death of Alexander. During the ensuing Hellenistic period, I may well have been growing into a city, but Dilmun would still be a more important port as it is today.Happy to hear that excavations are going on there. Thanks, Damon.
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