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Jebel Khayabir/Alexandria?/Antiochia?/Spasinou Charax?/Karkh Maisan?/[Astarabad Ardashir]?

Close to Jebel Khayabir in Iraq, this site was an important mercantile center of southern Mesopotamia and capital of Characene. It may have been founded as an Alexandria by Alexander the Great and refounded as an Antioch by Antiochos IV.