Qualla: Alexandria in Orietai https://qualla.com/alexandria-in-orietai en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/t/k/z/u/alexandria-in-orietai-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Alexandria in Orietai https://qualla.com/alexandria-in-orietai Alexandria in Orietai: Introduction https://qualla.com/alexandria-in-orietai/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. World Imaging assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. Alexander the Great founded cities the way other conquerors raised flags -- compulsively, strategically, and across an almost incomprehensible span of territory. By the time his army reached the coast of what is now Balochistan in the autumn of 325 BC, he had already established or renamed more than seventy settlements stretching from Egypt to the Hindu Kush. Alexandria in Orietai was one more pin in that map, a garrison town planted among the Oritae people near the Arabian Sea, where the Indus trade routes met the overland passes to Kandahar.

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/k/z/u/alexandria-in-orietai-wp/tkzu-alexandria-in-orietai-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Alexandria in Orietai: The Autumn of 325 BC https://qualla.com/alexandria-in-orietai/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. World Imaging assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. The founding came at a moment of logistical necessity. Alexander had separated from his admiral Nearchus, who was sailing the fleet along the coast, and was marching his army overland through the deserts and mountains of southern Balochistan -- a march that would become one of th...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/k/z/u/alexandria-in-orietai-wp/tkzu-alexandria-in-orietai-the-autumn-of-325-bc.mp3 0:06 2 full Alexandria in Orietai: An Emporium for Spice and Bdellium https://qualla.com/alexandria-in-orietai/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. World Imaging assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. Alexander almost certainly intended the new town to be an emporium, a commercial hub controlling the Indian spice trade through the mountain passes connecting the coast to Kandahar. The region had resources worth controlling. Four centuries later, the Roman-era Periplus of the Er...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/k/z/u/alexandria-in-orietai-wp/tkzu-alexandria-in-orietai-an-emporium-for-spice-and-bdellium.mp3 0:06 3 full Alexandria in Orietai: The Search for the Lost City https://qualla.com/alexandria-in-orietai/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. World Imaging assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. No one has definitively found Alexandria in Orietai. The archaeologist Aurel Stein proposed a location near modern Bela, Pakistan, and this remains the most widely accepted candidate. The ancient historian Diodorus, however, placed the city on the coast, though millennia of geolo...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/k/z/u/alexandria-in-orietai-wp/tkzu-alexandria-in-orietai-the-search-for-the-lost-city.mp3 0:06 4 full Alexandria in Orietai: Ghost on the Map https://qualla.com/alexandria-in-orietai/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. World Imaging assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. Alexander died less than two years after founding this settlement, and his empire fragmented almost immediately. The fate of Alexandria in Orietai vanishes from the historical record. It may have been absorbed by local populations, eroded by the elements, or buried beneath later ...

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