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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: 330 BC, 330s BC births, 330s BC deaths, 330s BC establishments, 331 BC, 332 BC, 333 BC, 334 BC, 335 BC, 336 BC, 337 BC, 338 BC, 339 BC, Alexandria, League of Corinth, Battle of Chaeronea, Battle of Gaugamela, Battle of Issus, Battle of the Persian Gate, Battle of the Granicus, Strato of Lampsacus, Lyceum, Siege of Tyre, Hicetas, Siege of Halicarnassus, Battle of Megalopolis, Battle of Pandosia, Siege of Gaza, Stateira I, Menecrates of Ephesus, Battle of Vesuvius, Battle of Trifanum, Siege of Miletus. Excerpt: Alexandria (Arabic:, Coptic: , Greek: Alexandria, Koine Greek: ' IPA: "Alexandria in Egypt," Egyptian Arabic: ) is the second-largest city of Egypt, with a population of 4.1 million, extending about 32 km (20 mi) along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country; it is also the largest city lying directly on the Mediterranean coast. It is Egypt's largest seaport, serving approximately 80% of Egypt's imports and exports. Alexandria is also an important tourist resort. It is home to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (the new Library of Alexandria). It is an important industrial centre because of its natural gas and oil pipelines from Suez. Alexandria was founded around a small pharaonic town c. 331 BCE by Alexander the Great. It remained Egypt's capital for nearly a thousand years, until the Muslim conquest of Egypt in CE 641, when a new capital was founded at Fustat (Fustat was later absorbed into Cairo). Alexandria was known because of its Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; its library (the largest library in the ancient world); and the Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa, one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages. Ongoing maritime archaeology in the harbor of Alexandria, which began in 1994, is revealing de...