Alexandria of the Arachosians
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Alexandria of the Arachosians was a city that is now present-day Kandahar, Afghanistan. It is one of the seventy-plus cities founded or renamed by Alexander the Great. Arachosia is the Greek name of an ancient province of the Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian empires and corresponds to the southern part of today's Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan and India.
