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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.
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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Darius III was the last king of the Achaemenid dynasty of the great Persian Empire. His reign was from 336 BC to 330 BC, a rather short time of rule. King Darius III inherited an unstable kingdom due to the lack of strong and wise leaders, resulting in disordered satrapy and rebellions.
The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - The Battle of Gaugamela (May 17, 2024) Battle of Gaugamela, (October 1, 331 bce) clash between the forces of Alexander the Great of Macedonia and Darius III of Persia that decided the fate of the Persian Achaemenian Empire.
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Sep 9, 2019 · Darius III, King of Persia. But there were also signs that the Persian Empire was already in decline. After suffering humiliating back-to-back defeats in Greece in the 5th century B.C.,...
- Dave Roos
Opposite Alexander stood the army of the Persian King of Kings, Darius III. He was a decent man and a concerned ruler, but his military ability was no match for that of the 25-year-old Macedonian genius. Darius had done his best to thwart Alexander’s progress through his empire.
Sep 17, 2007 · Lying near the hamlet of Gaugamela, the plain was part of a vast territory north of the Persian provincial capital of Babylon where King Darius III, also known as Darius Codomanus, had mustered an army formidable enough, he hoped, to halt the invasion of the Persian-dominated lands of the eastern Mediterranean by Macedonian forces.
