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It is a igned to the Alexandrine War. A war (48-47 в. с.) between Julius Cæsar and the guardians of Ptolemy (elder brother of Cleopatra), in Egypt. It resulted in favor of Cæsar, who placed Cleopatra and her younger brother (the elder having died) on the Egyptian throne. Alexandroff. See Alexandrov . Alex andro pol (äl-ek-sän-dro'pol), or Alexandrapol (äl-ek-sändräʼpol), formerly Gumri. A town in the government of Erivan, Transcaucasia, Ru ia, situated on the Arpa 35 miles northeast of Kars. It is an important military post. Here, 1853, the Ru ians defeated the Turks. Population (1891), 24,230. Alexandrov, or Alexandroff (ä-lek-sän'drof). A town in the government of Vladimir, Ru ia, 60 miles northeast of Moscow. Population, 5,692. Alexandrovsk (äl-ek-sän'drofsk). A town in the government of Yekaterinoslaff, Ru ia, situated near the Dnieperin lat. 47° 47′ N., long. 35° 20′ E. Population, 15,079. Alexandrovsky (äl-ek-sän-drof'skē) Mountains. A mountain-range running east and west in the governments of Semiryetchensk and Syr-Daria, Asiatic Ru ia. Its greatest height is about 12,000 to 13,000 feet. Alexas (a-lek's as). A minor character in Shakspere's "Antony and Cleopatra," an attendant of Cleopatra. Taylor , Hist. Anc. Books, p. 69. [This library (according to many writers who discredit its sacking by the Arabs) was entirely destroyed under Theophilus, A. D. 391.] Alexandria. A small town on the coast of Asia Minor, near the island of Tenedos. It contains important ruins of Roman thermæ. The structure Alexiad (a-lek'si-ad), The. See the extract. By the command of the Empre Irene, Nicephorus Byrennius, who had married her daughter the celebrated Anna Comnena, undertook a history of the house of Comneni, which has come down to us with the title "Materials of History." Anna herself continued her husband's work when she retired after his death to the leisure of a convent. The imperial authore entitled her book "The Alexiad." As its epic name denotes, it is mainly a prolix biography of her father Alexis I. It is in fifteen books, and includes the period from 1069 to 1118. The work is interesting in itself to the student of history, but it is most generally known as having supplied Sir Walter Scott with the subject and some of the materials for the last and feeblest of his romances. K. O. Müller , Hist. of the Lit. of Anc. Greece, III. 399. [ ( Donald son . ) Alexin. See Aleksin . Alexinatz (ä-lek'si-näts). A town in Servia, situated near the Morava in lat. 43° 31′ Ν., long. 21° 41′ E., the scene of several contests between the Turks and Servians in 1876. Population (1890), 5,762.