Alexandria

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For the American city, see Alexandria, Louisiana

Alexandria was an ancient human city in the Nile delta in Egypt.

[edit] Alexandria in "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire"

Alexandria was an ancient city even as the Byzantine Empire reckoned things. It was the capital of the Ptolemies (the line of Hellenistic kings of Egypt) before Rome had acquired the province and the Augustal prefect continued to use their palace as the place of government. Because of its age, its citizens were among the few that felt Constantinople was the "newcomer" rather than the city.

[edit] Alexandria in Worldwar

Alexandria was destroyed by a German atomic bomb launched from a submarine in 1944. Shortly after the city's destruction, Atvar toured the wreckage and was chilled by the grisly site.