- late 4th century BCEAsia
Alexander's fleet names the island Ikaros
During the exploration of the Gulf by Alexander the Great's navy, the admiral Nearchus is credited with naming Failaka 'Ikaros' after an Aegean island.
Era: Failaka: Dilmun and the Greek Island of Ikaros
Sources: Failaka Island: A Palimpsest of Human Civilizations (Tentative List) · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Ikaros of the Gulf: Failaka Island · Archaeology Magazine (Archaeological Institute of America)
Peoples & MigrationThe 4th century BCE
Peoples & Migration in the 4th century BCE
One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 4th century BCE, tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 1
- Nations
- 1
- Earliest
- 325 BCE
- Latest
- 325 BCE
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.