…Alexander advances south without opposition until he …
Years: 332BCE - 332BCE
…Alexander advances south without opposition until he reaches Gaza on its high mound.
Because of Gaza's strategic position on the Via Maris, the ancient coastal road linking Egypt with Palestine and the lands beyond, the city has known little peace; it has fallen, successively, to the Philistines, maybe the Israelites, and the Egyptians, Babylonians, and Persians.
Here bitter resistance halts Alexander, who sustains a serious shoulder wound during a sortie.
Gaza is the last city to resist Alexander’s conquest on his path to Egypt.
He besieges it for five months before finally capturing it 332 BCE; the inhabitants are either killed or taken captive.
Alexander brings in local Bedouins to populate Gaza and organizes the city into a polis (or "city-state").
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- Tyre, Kingdom of (Phoenicia)
- Persian people
- Macedon, Argead Kingdom of
- Egypt (Ancient), Late Period of
- Phoenicia, Achaemenid
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
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Years: 332BCE - 332BCE
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- Tyre, Kingdom of (Phoenicia)
- Persian people
- Macedon, Argead Kingdom of
- Egypt (Ancient), Late Period of
- Phoenicia, Achaemenid
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
- Jews
- Alexander, Empire of
- Greece, Hellenistic
- Bedouin
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