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Pretty much everybody who had the power to. Probably the champion city-namer-after-himself, though, was Alexander of Macedonia, who at one point had over a dozen cities named "Alexandria".
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!6 cities this is not true my text book said that he named a little over 70 cities after himself as Alexandria includeing the famous Alexandria Egypt which is know for its many things such as its libraries but the less famous alexandrias were mostly later renamed.
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