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The largest city of the Roman East and the hinge of the empire's food supply: Egyptian grain shipped from Alexandria fed Rome and later Constantinople.
31.2, 29.9 · approximate · founded 331 BCE by Alexander III; Roman provincial capital of Aegyptus from 30 BCE; grain supply redirected to Constantinople from the 4th century CE
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- A place in: Roman Empire · 7 places
- Joined to: Alexandria — The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum) · 2 places
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- connects via The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum) — Alexandria was the export terminal for Egyptian grain, the single largest bulk flow in the empire, moved entirely by ship.
- is connected to of The Egyptian cable land crossing — Cables crossing Egypt re-enter the Mediterranean at landing stations at Alexandria and at Abu Talat to its west.
- early centre of Christianity — A port that hinged Mediterranean shipping to the Red Sea also hosted an early Christian community with schools, texts and controversies — commercial centrality producing intellectual centrality.
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