Darius I
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Darius I was the fourth emperor of the ancient Persian Achaemenid Empire, ruling from 522 to 486 BC, and is considered the greatest of the Achaemenid rulers. He is remembered for expanding and consolidating the Persian Empire's power and territorial control during his reign.
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- Born
- 548 B.C.
- Died
- 485 B.C.
- Works
- 17
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- The sculptures and inscription of Darius the Great
- Descriptive charts of ancient monuments
- Aramaic papyri of the fifth century B.C.
- Memoir on the Babylonian and Assyrian inscriptions
- Die grosse Darius-inschrift am felsen von Behistun
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Darius I (Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Dārayavaʰuš; c. 550 – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 522 BCE until his death in 486 BCE. He ruled the empire at its territorial peak, when it included much of West Asia, parts of the Balkans (Thrace–Macedonia and Paeonia) and the Caucasus, most of the Black Sea's coastal regions, Central Asia, the Indus Valley in the far east, and portions of North Africa and Northeast Africa including Egypt (Mudrâya), eastern Libya, and coastal Sudan.
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