Nicanor (; el, Nικάνωρ ''Nīkā́nōr'') of

Stageira Stagira (), Stagirus (), or Stageira ( el, Στάγειρα or ) was an ancient Greek city located near the eastern coast of the peninsula of Chalkidice, which is now part of the Greek province of Central Macedonia. It is chiefly known for bei ...

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ia, was despatched by

Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to ...

to proclaim at the

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of 324 BCE the decree for the recall of the exiles throughout the Greek cities. It is perhaps the same person whom we find at an earlier period entrusted with the command of the fleet during Alexander's siege of Miletus. Arrian ''Anabasis'' 1.18, 19. At least it seems probably that the Nicanor there mentioned is not the son of Parmenion; he may, however, be identical with the Nicanor who was satrap of Media under Antigonus.

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* {{Authority control Ancient Stagirites 4th-century BC Greek people