Cophen campaign

Alexander's Indian campaign
	Part of Indian campaign of Alexander the Great
	; The Valley of the Cophen
Date	May 327 BC – March 326 BC
Location	modern Kabul valley, Afghanistan and Pakistan35.2°N 72.483333°E
Result	Hellenic conquest of the Cophen (Kabul) country, modern Kunar, Panjkora, and Swat valleys
Belligerents
Macedon; League of Corinth	Aspasioi; Guraeans; Assakenoi
Commanders and leaders
Alexander the Great (WIA); Craterus; Perdiccas; Ptolemy I Soter (WIA); Leonnatus (WIA)	Cleophis; Abisares ; others
	Location of the Cophen Valley

The Cophen campaign was conducted by Alexander the Great in the Kabul (Sanskrit: "Kubha") Valley between May 327 BC and March 326 BC. It was conducted against the Aspasioi, the Guraeans, and the Assakenoi tribes in the Kunar valley of Afghanistan, and Panjkora (Dir) and Swat valleys in what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The goal of the campaign was to secure the Macedonian line of communications so that the Macedonian army could proceed into India proper.

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