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ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE HELLENISTIC NAVAL PRESENCE IN SOUTH MESOPOTAMIA AND THE GULF | ||
| The Arab Gulf | ||
| Article 1, Volume 45, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-19 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Authors | ||
| Asst .pro.Dr. Adil Hashim Ali; Andreas P.Parpas | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The presence of Alexander's the Great naval in southern Mesopotamia region as well as the Hellenistic control on the Arabian / Persian Gulf Basin in the areas, has not attained a sufficient share of the archaeological studies yet ,therefore, study of these areas relies heavily on what is contained in the classical sources through the reported Alexander assigned to marine commanders (Niarchos, Arkhias, Androsetheins, Heron) to discover the coasts of the Gulf. Moreover the linguistic, historical and geographical area studies (southern Mesopotamia and the Gulf ( . So the search has adopted to reconcile the classical studies and contemporary studies, taking into considerations the modern archaeological discoveries in some Hellenistic settlements in southern Mesopotamia, such as a city site (Alexandria on the Tigris) that has been identified in the north of Basra in area Khiabr which was one of the cities marine Logistics linking Babylonia and Sosa with India and Gulf regions and the rest of other marine areas. On the other hand, the archaeological excavations in the coasts of the Gulf (east and west) Supplied the research good information to know the extent of the obvious Hellenistic naval presence so that some modern scholars are calling the Persian-Arabian Gulf (the Hellenistic Gulf. | ||
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