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Acadera

Acadera or Acadira was a region in the northwest of India, traversed by Alexander the Great as related by first-century Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus. Arrian describes it not as a region but as a city he terms Andaca, which Alexander took by storm, during the Cophen Campaign, 327 BCE to 326 BCE.

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Acadera or Acadira was a region in the northwest of India, traversed by Alexander the Great as related by first-century Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus.1 Arrian describes it not as a region but as a city he terms Andaca, which Alexander took by storm,2 during the Cophen Campaign, 327 BCE to 326 BCE.

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  1. Quintus Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander the Great, 8.10.19.
  2. Arrian (1814). "4.23". Arrian's History of Alexander's Expedition. Retrieved 15 August 2018.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Acade'ra". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.