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Alexandria was founded where the Nile meets the Mediterranean by Alexander the Great, in the year 331 B.C. The city became the capital of Egypt, and rapidly developed into one of the richest and most beautiful cities in the world. That is to say, in the world known to the antique.
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Holme, A. (2010). Geometry in the Hellenistic Era. In: Geometry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14441-7_4
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