Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Alexandria"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Alexandria
the ancient metropolis of Lower Egypt, so called from its
founder, Alexander the Great (about B.C. 333). It was for a long
period the greatest of existing cities, for both Nineveh and
Babylon had been destroyed, and Rome had not yet risen to
greatness. It was the residence of the kings of Egypt for 200
years. It is not mentioned in the Old Testament, and only
incidentally in the New. Apollos, eloquent and mighty in the
Scriptures, was a native of this city (Acts 18:24). Many Jews
from Alexandria were in Jerusalem, where they had a synagogue
(Acts 6:9), at the time of Stephen's martyrdom. At one time it
is said that as many as 10,000 Jews resided in this city. It
possessed a famous library of 700,000 volumes, which was burned
by the Saracens (A.D. 642). It was here that the Hebrew Bible
was translated into Greek. This is called the Septuagint
version, from the tradition that seventy learned men were
engaged in executing it. It was, however, not all translated at
one time. It was begun B.C. 280, and finished about B.C. 200 or
150. (See {VERSION}.)
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Alexandria
n 1: a town in Louisiana on the Red River [syn: {Alexandria}]
2: the chief port of Egypt; located on the western edge of the
Nile delta on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Alexander
the Great; the capital of ancient Egypt [syn: {Alexandria},
{El Iskandriyah}]
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