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Ai-Khanoum

ruined Hellenistic city in Afghanistan
Place Archaeological Site Q857845

Facts

8 properties

Identity

Instance of
archaeological site, locality[6]
Native label
آی‌خانم, Eucratideia[10][11]

Location

Country
Afghanistan[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 37.166°, 69.411°[8]
Located in or next to body of water
Amu Darya, Kokcha River[4][5]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Dashti Qala District[2]
More facts +2
Named after
Alexander the Great[7]
Significant event
Siege of Eucratideia[9]
🏷️ Also known as
en Aï Khānum en Alexandria on the Oxus en Eucratidia en Ay Khanum en Ai-Khanoum en Lady Moon ar آي خانم de Ai Chanum de Ai-Khanoum de Ay Khanum de Alexandria Oxiana el Αλεξάνδρεια η επί του Ώξου el Πρώτη Αλεξάνδρεια στον Ώξο el Αλεξάνδρεια του Ώξου el Αλεξάνδρεια η Ωξιανή el Άϊ-Χανούμ el Αλεξάνδρεια η Ωξειανή el Αλεξάνδρεια η επί του Ώξου Α’ en-gb Alexandria on the Oxus es Ay Khanum
🔖 Identifiers · 24
VIAF cluster ID
237425980
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n84238793
GND ID
4332465-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
AiKhanumCapitals.jpg ↗
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
ai-khanum
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
25246
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
ai-khanoum
Freebase ID
/m/03h61d
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7032374
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
ai-khanum
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0262137
Grove Art Online ID
T001291
Show all 24 identifiers +12
Iranica ID
ay-kanom-or-a-khanum-tepe-a-local-uzbek-name-lit
J9U entity ID
987007562365205171
Kulturenvanteri monument ID
320137
Lex ID
Ai_Khanoum
Museum-digital place ID
11634
OpenStreetMap way ID
1161469646
Oxford Classical Dictionary ID
224
Oxford Reference overview ID
20110803095357500
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrt3khTs9jvsU
Pleiades ID
971693
Trismegistos Geo ID
2835
Vici.org ID
10851

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
archaeological site, locality
Located in or next to body of water 2
Amu Darya, Kokcha River
Country 1
Afghanistan
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Dashti Qala District
Named after 1
Alexander the Great
← Capital 1
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
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Summary

Ai-Khanoum is an archaeological site[1].

Body

Geography

Adjacent water bodies include Amu Darya[4], a river[12], in Turkmenistan[13] and Kokcha River[5], a river[14], in Afghanistan[15].

Related Entities

Afghanistan Alexander the Great Amu Darya

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [12] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · B Arbre6 · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Dashti Qala District
    Country → Afghanistan
    Named after → Alexander the Great
    Coordinate location → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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