Boukephala and Nikaia

Boukephala and Nikaia were a pair of cities that Alexander the Great founded on opposite banks of the Hydaspes, the river now called the Jhelum in Pakistan, during his campaign into the Indian subcontinent. They were built shortly after his victory over the Indian king Porus at the Battle of the Hydaspes in early 326 BC. Ancient writers do not make clear which settlement carried which name, but the eastern city, raised on the battlefield, was most likely Nikaia, a name meaning victory, while the western one was probably named for his horse Bucephalus. The general Craterus supervised the building. Boukephala left the richer record, appearing in Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy, the Periplus Maris Erythraei and the Tabula Peutingeriana, though the exact sites are unknown; Jalalpur and Mong are the usual guesses.