Thank you for the history. I visited Alexandria in the 80’s while serving in the Navy. I regret not having more time to see more of the city. Great video.
Hiya I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your 2:11 minutes of compounded direct information, compared to hours of other's indirect information. Thank you kindly.
@@procyon6370 I think that the closest and best to the three continents of the world is the island of Crete in Greece. It is close to Turkey, which is the gateway to Asia, close to Greece, the gateway to Europe, and close to Egypt, the gateway to Africa.
Despite its close proximity to the Mediterranean, Lake Mareotis was a freshwater lake, most likely fed by natural channels from the Nile. One of the natural waterways was broadened in ancient times to build a navigable canal that officially connected the lake to the river (around 200 BCE) but it eventually fell into disrepair and the natural connections to the Nile dried up along with it. By the middle ages, Lake Mareotis was a collection of smaller saltier lakes. It was enlarged a little under the British, but it continued to shrink throughout the 20th century as it started becoming used for city-expansion.
No, it's generally believed that Alexandria was the largest city in the world for about 100-150 years. Rome eventually overtook it around the year 1 CE, but possibly a little later.
@@romanblair5887 Cool! Never new that... though Rome must have overtook Alexandria quite a bit before 1 CE, since the consensus is that Rome had already reached the 1 million mark by then.
@@JD-jl4yy Right, it reached the one million mark, but Alexandria already had a million people. So Rome needed to grow beyond 1 million to overtake it. When that actually happened is up for debate, but probably between 1CE and 50CE.
@@romanblair5887 Estimates range from 300k to 500k, 600k, 750k and million haha. I guess we'll never know for sure :) historum.com/threads/city-size-in-the-ancient-world.42509/ "The 500,000 number is directly cited from Strabo, while there is a census from the 1st century AD preserved in form of papyrus that gives a citizen population of 180,000. Some have extrapolated a population of up to 1 million from this citizen population, though actually it implies more in a city population of 750,000, which is the upper bound given by Rathbone in The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World." (thanks for the link btw, very interesting :D)
Thank you for the history. I visited Alexandria in the 80’s while serving in the Navy. I regret not having more time to see more of the city. Great video.
Hiya I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your 2:11 minutes of compounded direct information, compared to hours of other's indirect information. Thank you kindly.
Thanks! I'm so glad you like it
Simply the pearl of the Mediterranean
I'm Egyptian and I've recently been to Alexandria, its sad how little of the ancient city survives today
The Most Famous of Alexandria City is my hometown from Egypt. GREEK-EGYPT.
egypt's first then the greco-roman period , the city predates alexander the great and greece itself
Alexandria is still the city with the best location in the world, its the one-point intersection of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
That's Constantinople/ Istanbul
@@procyon6370 how is constantinople closer to africa than alexandria which is literally in africa
How is Alexandria closer to Europe when Istanbul is literally in Europe?
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I think that the closest and best to the three continents of the world is the island of Crete in Greece. It is close to Turkey, which is the gateway to Asia, close to Greece, the gateway to Europe, and close to Egypt, the gateway to Africa.
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Very cool video 👍
How did Lake Mareotis become so small?
Despite its close proximity to the Mediterranean, Lake Mareotis was a freshwater lake, most likely fed by natural channels from the Nile. One of the natural waterways was broadened in ancient times to build a navigable canal that officially connected the lake to the river (around 200 BCE) but it eventually fell into disrepair and the natural connections to the Nile dried up along with it. By the middle ages, Lake Mareotis was a collection of smaller saltier lakes. It was enlarged a little under the British, but it continued to shrink throughout the 20th century as it started becoming used for city-expansion.
Great alexander build 27 city's with the name alexandria but only this in Egypt become a true megalopolis and cosmopolitan a world class metropolis
Also Alexandratte and Antioch (built by Alexander the great) became worlds some of biggest cities in classic ages.
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Wasn't rome larger by 100 bce?
No, it's generally believed that Alexandria was the largest city in the world for about 100-150 years. Rome eventually overtook it around the year 1 CE, but possibly a little later.
@@romanblair5887 Cool! Never new that... though Rome must have overtook Alexandria quite a bit before 1 CE, since the consensus is that Rome had already reached the 1 million mark by then.
@@JD-jl4yy Right, it reached the one million mark, but Alexandria already had a million people. So Rome needed to grow beyond 1 million to overtake it. When that actually happened is up for debate, but probably between 1CE and 50CE.
PS. I really like this video if you're also interested in ancient city growth like I am :D ruclips.net/video/m3uD073rJOU/видео.html
@@romanblair5887 Estimates range from 300k to 500k, 600k, 750k and million haha. I guess we'll never know for sure :)
historum.com/threads/city-size-in-the-ancient-world.42509/
"The 500,000 number is directly cited from Strabo, while there is a census from the 1st century AD preserved in form of papyrus that gives a citizen population of 180,000. Some have extrapolated a population of up to 1 million from this citizen population, though actually it implies more in a city population of 750,000, which is the upper bound given by Rathbone in The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World."
(thanks for the link btw, very interesting :D)
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