pismonque
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My curiosity with this is that there actually was no Poland at the time of Alexander. Did the brochure maybe say Epirius instead? I know his mother was from Epirius, as her father was at one time the king there. Epirius would be located today in northwest Greece and maybe some of southern Albania, as following WWI the Allies redistributed a lot of the Balkan lands that had been under Ottoman control. I had always understood that Alexander was born in Pella, but if the Greeks say he was born elsewhere I would not argue, but Epirius seems more likely to me than what was considered the barbaric lands of northern Europe at the time.
Well, if there was no Poland, then where did the Sherpas carry Alexander from after the Great Tiber Flood?