Luxor Temple with dual statues
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الإسكندريه (Al-Iskandarīyah), formerly Αλεξάνδρεια (Alexándreia), Alexandrie and Alexandria, is located along the Mediterranean coast just west of the Nil (Nile) Delta. Its current metropolitan population is 4.7 million, with about 4.5 million in the city proper.
| Name | Year | Population | Political entity |
| Αλεξάνδρεια (Alexándria) | 200 BCE | 300,000| Ptolemaïkè Basileía (Ptolemaic Egypt) | |
| Alexandria | 100 CE | 250,000| Senatvs Popvlvsqve Romanvs (the Roman Empire) | |
| Αλεξάνδρεια (Alexándria) | 361 CE | 125,000| Rhomania (Romania or the Byzantine Empire) | |
| Αλεξάνδρεια (Alexándria) | 500 CE | 100,000| Rhomania (Romania or the Byzantine Empire) | |
| 622 CE | 94,000| Ĕrānshahr (Sassianian Empire) | | |
| الإسكندريه (al-Iskandarīyah) | 800 CE | 95,000| al-Khilafah al-'Abbasiyyah al-Islamiyyah (Abbasid Empire) | |
| الإسكندريه (al-Iskandarīyah) | 900 CE | 175,000| Miṣr (Tulunid Egypt) | |
| الإسكندريه (al-Iskandarīyah) | 1200 CE | 50,000| Sultanate of Miṣr and Sūriyya (Ayyubid Empire) | |
| Alexandria | 1900 CE | 31,000| Egypt (occupied by the UK) | |
Luxor Temple with dual statues
1. 2012 calculation in world-gazetteer.com, accessed 3/24/2012. It had 3.3 million in 1996 and 4.1 million in 2006.
2. Emporis.com, accessed 3/24/2012.
3. Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987), "Tables of World's Largest Cities". Αλεξάνδρεια was the third largest city in the world in 200 BCE, fourth in 100 CE, seventh in 361 and 622 and ninth in 500; as al-Iskandarīiyah it was sixth in 900.
4. I do not know the official name the Persians used.