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Darius III (Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Dārayavaʰuš; Greek: Δαρεῖος Dareios; c. 380 – 330 BC) was the last Achaemenid King of Kings of Persia, reigning from 336 BC to his death in 330 BC. Contrary to his predecessor Artaxerxes IV Arses, Darius was a distant member of the Achaemenid dynasty.
Died: c. 329 bc. Bessus (died c. 329 bc) was an Achaemenid satrap (governor) of Bactria and Sogdiana under King Darius III of Persia. In 330, after Alexander the Great had defeated Darius in several major battles, Bessus murdered Darius and assumed the kingship as Artaxerxes IV.
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The last king of the Persian Empire, Darius III, died when a Bactrian satrap, Bessus, and his accomplices tied him up, threw him in an oxcart, and left him to die. Although there were other accounts of Darius III death, this one is the most commonly mentioned.
Sep 17, 2007 · Before Alexander arrived at the place where Darius had been, however, Bessus had stabbed his cousin to death, then fled into the night. When Alexander found him, the Persian king had breathed his last.
How Alexander the Great caught up with and killed the Persian king Darius III in 330 BC. Read the account by Arrian of Nicomedia, a historian of the 2nd century AD.
Also at this time, Darius’s wife died of illness, and knowledge of her passing was brought to Darius by one of the queen’s eunuchs, Tyriotes. The man had stolen a horse and fled the Macedonian camp to reach the Persian army.
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Nov 24, 2011 · The Battle of Issus, on 5 November 333 BCE, was Alexander the Great 's second battle against the Persian army and the first direct engagement with King Darius III, near the village of Issus in southern modern-day Turkey. It was a major victory for Alexander, defeating the Achaemenid Empire and causing Darius III to flee the battlefield.
