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Battle of Issus. / 36.7525; 36.1923. The Battle of Issus (also Issos) occurred in southern Anatolia, on 5 November 333 BC between the Hellenic League led by Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid Empire, led by Darius III. It was the second great battle of Alexander's conquest of Asia, and the first encounter between Darius III and Alexander ...
This term is also recorded in English as the Sassanian Empire, the Sasanid Empire, and the Sassanid Empire. Historians have referred to the Sasanian Empire as the Neo-Persian Empire , since it was the second Iranian empire that rose from Pars ( Persis ), [23] while the Achaemenid Empire was the first.
A. Achaemenid inscription in the Kharg Island. Achaemenid Persian Lion Rhyton. Acropole Tomb. Altıkulaç Sarcophagus. Apadana hoard.
Skudra ( Old Persian: 𐎿𐎤𐎢𐎭𐎼 Skudra) was a province ( satrapy) of the Persian Achaemenid Empire in Europe between 510s BC and 479 BC. Its name is attested in Persian and Egyptian inscriptions (an Egyptian record of c. 498–497 BC, and a list on the tomb of Darius the Great at Naqsh-e Rustam, c. 486 BC. [1]
Bronze Age. The area was first recorded in history around 4000 BC as a group of coastal cities and a heavily forested hinterland. [citation needed] It was inhabited by the Canaanites, a Semitic-speaking people, whom the Greeks called "Phoenicians" because of the purple (phoinikies) dye they sold.
Yehud Medinata, also called Yehud Medinta or simply Yehud, was an autonomous administrative division of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.It constituted a part of Eber-Nari and was bounded by Arabia to the south, lying along the frontier of the two satrapies.
300,000 killed. The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC [i] and lasted until 449 BC. The collision between the fractious political world of the Greeks and the enormous empire of the Persians began when Cyrus the Great ...
