Egypt's National Organization for Civilization Coordination includes Alexander the Great in the "Tale of a Street" project

egypt Thu, May. 26, 2022
The National Organization for Civilization Coordination included the name of Alexander the Great in the Tale of a Street project, in order to familiarize passersby with him and his heroism and for generations to know him more, where he put up a sign bearing his name and all the details about him.

Alexander is one of the kings of Greek Macedonia, and one of the most famous military leaders and conquerors throughout history. He is known by several names, including: Alexander III, Alexander the Great, Alexander the Great.

He was born in the city of Pella in 356 BC, so his father, "Philip II of Macedon", summoned the famous Greek philosopher Aristotle to his palace to teach Alexander. Alexander continued to receive knowledge from Aristotle until he was sixteen years old. When Alexander reached the age of twelve, his father began preparing him for equestrianism. His mother was called Olympias.

His father, Philip, had brought Greece under his control, and prepared in 337 BC to carry out a campaign against the Persians in retaliation for the sabotage they had done in the country of Greece. While the preparation for the major campaign was in full swing, Philip was assassinated with the dagger of one of his angry officers on him in 336 BC. Alexander was not yet twenty years old. Where he found himself king of Macedonia, but he was not afraid of dangers and assumed that throne with his heavy responsibilities at such a young age.

Alexander inherited from his father a kingdom and a strong army, but he faced a rebellion on the part of the Greek cities that did not want to continue to submit to the control of Macedonia, so Alexander faced this date with all courage and valor, and almost in the fall of 335 BC. AD was presented until Alexander had subjugated Greece In one fell swoop, he seized command of the Greek and Macedonian forces, and became an unrivaled leader, imposing his dominion over a vast territory stretching from the Peloponnese in the south to the Danube basin in the north, and from the island of Corkyra in the west to the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles in the east.

In the spring of 334 BC, Alexander launched a campaign against Persia. He managed to defeat the Persians and expel them from Asia Minor. Then, he proceeded to extract their possessions one by one, in a series of military campaigns that lasted ten years, during which Alexander managed to destroy the military power. The Persian Empire had several decisive military positions, most notably the Battle of Issus and Gaugamela. In the end, he was able to overthrow Dara III, Emperor of Persia, and open the entire territory of his empire, thus extending the borders of Alexander's empire from the Adriatic Sea in the west to the Indus River in the east.

Alexander's armies also invaded Egypt, which was under Persian occupation at the time. He entered it in 332 BC. It was rumored that he came to Egypt to free it from Persian slavery. The Egyptians welcomed the hero who claims to be a descendant of their Lord Amun. Thus, Egypt turned into an important part of Alexander's empire.

Alexander was striving to reach the end of the world, so he invaded India in 326 BC, but he was forced to return at the insistence of his leaders, and because of the rebellion of the army, because the Macedonian forces were exhausted from fighting and traveling in strange climatic conditions. The strength of the men was psychologically exhausted, and for this reason they refused to penetrate east and their desire to return to their homelands appeared.

Alexander founded more than twenty cities bearing his name in different parts of his empire, the most prominent and important of which was the city of Alexandria in Egypt, and he established many Greek colonies throughout his sprawling empire.

Alexander sought to mix Hellenistic Greek culture with Eastern cultures, that is, to mix the civilization of the East and the West, and to create a new civilization that combines the two, which he called (the Hellenistic Civilization).

Alexander married the Persian “Roshan”, which is called in Greek “Roxana”, a second wife is the Persian “Statera”, and a third is the Persian “brooches” as well. He had two sons, "Alexander IV" and "Hercules" the Macedonian.

Alexander died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon, Iraq, on the tenth or eleventh of June, 323 BC, at the age of thirty-two years. Historians differ slightly in determining the causes of death; Some of them said that he drank excessively until he developed a strong fever and became unable to speak. Others stated that he died of poisoning at the hands of some of those close to him, and some went to the possibility of contracting a natural disease such as malaria or typhoid fever, and he died because of it.

After his death, his body was placed in a golden coffin, and he was placed in a ship to take him to Macedonia. During the walk with the body, one of the leaders of Alexander, who was his share in Egypt, Ptolemy, forced the knees to go to Egypt, and was embalmed and buried in a cemetery in Alexandria, and the shrine continued It was known during the Roman era, until it was less talked about in historical sources, and it became one of the historical matters shrouded in mystery.