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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17264, 4 September 1916, Page 8

Alexaudretta, or Scanderoon. tho port in the angle of Syria and Asia Minor which is indicated as a possiblo Anglo-Russian point of juncture against the Turk, .is the successor ot tho Little Alexandria, founded by Alexander tho Great. Next to the great one in Egypt, it is the best known now of his many Alexaudrias, which were dotted about, wherever he went in Asia. There wero among them Alexandria ad Caucosum, apparently north-east of Kabul; Alexandria Troas, near ancient Troy j Alexandria in Arlis, probably ' Herat; Alexandria in Arachosia, probsubly Kandahar; and Alexandria ad Jauartem, perhaps near Khodjend. Alessandria in. Piedmont had nothing to do with the Macedonian, but was I named after Pope Alexander 111.