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Doura Europos
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Doura Europos is located near the village of Salhiy, 40 km
from Deir Ezzor. It was founded in 303 BC by the Seleucids on
the intersection of an east-west trade route along the
Euphrates.
The new city, commemorating the birth place of Alexander's
successor Seleucus I Nicator, was controlling the river crossing
on the route between his newly founded cities of Antioch and
Seleucia on the Tigris.
It is rebuilding as a great city built after the Hippodamian
model, with rectangular blocks defined by cross-streets ranged
round a large central agora. It was formally laid out in the 2nd
century BC.
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