The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c25.52

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In the hills to the north, after a few months' fighting, the tribes generally had submitted to Alexander and the strong places were in his possession. He constituted the lower Kābul Valley and the recently conquered hills a special satrapy, distinct from the satrapy of the Paropanisadae, which Tyriespes ruled from Alexandria-under-the-Caucasus. The new satrapy, whose official name we do not know, but which can be most conveniently described as India-west-of-the-Indus, got for its governor a Nicanor, probably the same man who had been left a few months before to superintend the building of Alexandria. The king himself came down to Pushkalāvatī at the lower end of the Guraeus (now usually called the Swāt) valley, which was not in a position, after the defeat of its rāja, to offer any resistance. He set a Macedonian garrison in the town under an officer named Philip.