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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Late Classical to Hellenistic (350–133 BCE) with Roman upkeep to 600 CE · Ionian Greek (Milesian) and Hellenistic Attalid
Alexander-dedicated Athena temple 334 BCE by Pytheos and pristine Hippodamian grid city.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Ottoman (c.2750 BCE–present; Phoenician peak 1100–332 BCE) · Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Byzantine / Crusader
Phoenician island-city and legendary birthplace of Europa and Dido, Tyre dominated Mediterranean purple-dye trade.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Kushan (c.300 BCE–3rd cent CE, candidate Alexander 329 BCE) · Greco-Bactrian → Kushan
Hellenistic–Kushan Oxus fortress — candidate Alexandria on the Oxus (329 BCE) with 'Pompeii' preservation.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Ancient city
Hellenistic Seleucid–Greco-Bactrian 300–145 BCE · Seleucid / Greco-Bactrian (Greek in Central Asia)
Hellenistic polis (c.300–145 BCE) at Oxus confluence, founded by Seleucus I as Alexandria on Oxus, excavated 1964–1979 by French DAFA.
