[DOC] [TLE] Alexander the Great - Wikipedia [PAR] Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC  10/11 June 323 BC), commonly 
known as ... He subsequently overthrew the Persian King Darius III and 
conquered the ... Alexander died in Babylon in 323 BC, the city he planned to 
establish as his .... He colonized it with Greeks, and founded a city named 
Alexandropolis. [DOC] [TLE] Ptolemaic Kingdom - Wikipedia [PAR] The Ptolemaic Kingdom was a Hellenistic kingdom based in Egypt. It was ruled 
by the Ptolemaic dynasty which started with Ptolemy I Soter's ... In 332 BC, 
Alexander the Great, King of Macedon invaded the Achaemenid ..... A major 
Mediterranean port of Egypt, in ancient times and still today, Alexandria was 
founded in 331... [DOC] [TLE] Alexandria, Egypt - Ancient History Encyclopedia [PAR] Alexandria is a port city on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt founded in 
331 ... Syria in 332 BCE, Alexander the Great swept down into Egypt with his 
army. ... Under the Ptolemies, a line of Greek kings, Alexandria soon sprang into 
...... a fellow Macedonian, who would found the Ptolemaic Dynasty in ancient 
Egypt. [DOC] [TLE] Alexander the Great - Ancient History Encyclopedia [PAR] During the twenty-four years of his reign as King of Macedonia, in which he ... In 
332 BCE he conquered Syria and then Egypt in 331 BCE, where he founded the 
... named one of the two cities he founded after the battle "Bucephala" after him. 
...... Alexander the Great founds Alexandria at the port town of Rhakotis in Egypt. [DOC] [TLE] ancient Egypt - Macedonian and Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 bc ... [PAR] In the autumn of 332 bc Alexander the Great invaded Egypt with his mixed ... him 
an Egyptian parentage by linking his mother, Olympias, with the last king, 
Nectanebo II. ... was claimed by Ptolemy, son of a Macedonian nobleman named 
Lagus. ..... role of Alexandria as the major port and trading entrept was crucial: 
the city... [DOC] [TLE] Alexandria, Egypt - St-Takla.org [PAR] The city was founded in 332 BC by Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia, who 
planned it as one of the finest ports of the ancient world. A mole (breakwater... [DOC] [TLE] The Tomb of Alexander? - Alexander the Great [PAR] SIWA OASIS, Egypt (Reuter) - Archeologists searching in Egypt for the tomb of ... 
the burial site of the all-conquering Macedonian king -- and solved one of the ... 
in the Egyptian port city he founded and which was named after him -- Alexandria
. ... outer edge of the oasis where Alexander was proclaimed a god in 332 B.C.,... [DOC] [TLE] Alexander the Great, king of the Macedonia - Tripod [PAR] Alexander the Great was king of the Macedonians and one of the greatest ... 
furthered the spread of Greek ideas and customs in western Asia and Egypt. ... 
The Tyrians on the island surrendered in 332 B.C., after seven months of fighting. 
... Delta, Alexander founded a city in 331 B.C. and named it Alexandria after 
himself. [DOC] [TLE] Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age [PAR] One man, Alexander, King of Macedonia, a Greek-speaker, is responsible for this 
... The battle took place in Boeotia, near the city-state of Leuctra in July 371 BC. ... 
The Macedonian phalanx, created by Philip II, was sixteen rows deep and 
sixteen .... plans for a new port city in Egypt which he called Alexandria, after 
himself. [DOC] [TLE] here [PAR] He had visited the temple of Amun in Siwa in 332 BC, seeking confirmation ... 
ancient warrior-king Alexander the Great, archaeologists said on Tuesday. ... 
Historians have long believed the Macedonian leader, whose conquests ... 
buried in the Egyptian coastal city he founded and which was named after him -- 
Alexandria. [DOC] [TLE] HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT - History World [PAR] HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT including An inspiring inheritance, ... 
Alexander is born in Pella, the Macedonian capital, at about the time his father 
becomes king of Macedonia. ... The destruction of the Persian empire: 333

Question: This Egyptian port city is named for the Macedonian king who founded it in 332 B.C.
Answer: Alexandria