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Zeugma

Ζεῦγμα). Probably Rumkaleh; a city of Syria, on the borders of Commagené and Cyrrhesticé, built by Seleucus Nicator on the western bank of the Euphrates, at a point where the river was crossed by a bridge of boats, which had been constructed by Alexander the Great (Polyb. v. 43).

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