Jhelum built on the site of Alexandria Bucephalous?

[Kambojaric]

As we all know Alexander whilst marching down the Indus established and built several cities/garrisons to maintain his rule after his departure, the most famous probably being Nicaea which was built at the site where the battle of Hydaspes took place.

However it is also known that Alexander built another city in honour of his famous horse Bucephalous (Bucephalus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia who had perished during the battle. Several historians state that Alexander built Alexandria Bucephalous where modern Jhelum today lies.

On the site of modern Jhelum, Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria Bucephalous (named after his horse Bucephalous), who died in a famous battle here, known by Greeks as the Battle of the Hydaspes

Encyclopaedia of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh By Om Gupta

Bucephalus was depicted as anthropophagous - a man-eater, a combatant that ripped foes and tore into their flesh. After carrying Alexander through his victories at Issus, Granicus and the greatest of them all, Guagamela, Bucephalus luck ran out at the Battle of the River Hydaspes, 326 BC, where he succumbed to his wounds. Plutarch says Bucephalus was "thirty years old" when he died - rather old for a warhorse. Alexander mourned him as he would his bravest captain, ordering a state funeral and personally leading the procession. A new city, Bucephala was founded in the warhorse's honor. It survives as the Pakistani river city of Jhelum, where the Military College Jhelum is based.

Cavalry from Hoof to Track By Roman Johann Jarymowycz

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So what are your views on this theory?

 

[Whirling_dervesh]

According to professor ahmed dani it is jalalpur sharif