On Failaka Island off Kuwait..

[Hellenika]

On Failaka Island off Kuwait

Greek archaeologists are planning to excavate the ancient colony founded by Alexander the Great on Failaka Island off Kuwait in the 4th century BC, the Culture Ministry said yesterday. The town was built by Greeks on Alexander’s expeditionary force.


Some background on Failaka Island:

Failaka Island


Failaka's history goes back to the Bronze Age Dilmun civilisation, which was centred in Bahrain. The Greeks arrived in the 4th century BC in the form of a garrison sent by Nearchus, one of Alexander the Great's admirals.

A small settlement existed on the island prior to this, but it was as the Greek town of Ikaros that the settlement became a real city. The Greeks lived on Failaka for two centuries. The centrepiece of the island is its temple.


Excerpt from Wikipedia:

In the 3rd century BC, during Alexander the Great's advance through the region on his way to India, the ancient Greeks colonized the island, which they named Icaria after the Greek island in the Aegean Sea and the mythical hero Icarus; apparently because they believed the island had a similar shape off its Aegean counterpart. Some elements of Greek mythology mixed with the local cults.

[Apollyon]

It is known that in the island in Persian gulf,the name Bahrein is I think, Hellenes made a temple dedicated to Arthemis
and i speak about older times than Alexander;s campaign