Achaean League (Greek: Κοινὸν τῶν Ἀχαιῶν): confederation of Greek city states, focused on but not limited to the northern Peloponnese. It was important in the third and early second centuries BCE.
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Achaemenids (OP: Hakhâmanišiya): royal dynasty of ancient Persia, named after its legendary founder Achaemenes (Hakhâmaniš). This page offers the names and dates of the kings; there's more about their empire here.Achaemenid Kings
Cyrus
559
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November 530
Cambyses II
before 31 August 530
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after 18 April 522
Smerdis
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Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.In ca.521, the Persian king Darius I the Great ordered that a new alphabet, which…
Achaemenids (Old Persian: Hakhâmanišiya): royal dynasty of ancient Persia, named after its legendary founder Achaemenes (Hakhâmaniš).Origins
Achaemenid bull
According to the official…
Achoris (Egyptian: Maatchnumra Setepemchnum Hakor): pharaoh of the Twenty-Ninth or Mendesian dynasty (392/391-379).Context
Map of Lower Egypt (fifth-fourth centuries BCE)
In the…
Naval Battle of Actium (31 BCE): the decive battle in the last of the civil wars of the Roman Republic. Octavian defeated Mark Antony and founded the monarchy.
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Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs: brief Latin text, describing the trial of six Christian martyrs executed in 180 CE.The earliest Christian text in the Latin language appears to be little more than a court record. Six Christians from the unknown…
Vinxtbach: little stream, once the border between two Roman provinces, Germania Inferior and Germania Superior.
The Vinxtbach emptying itself into the…
Ada: sister and wife of Idrieus, after his death satrap of Caria between 344 and 340, member of the Hecatomnid dynasty.Ada was a daughter of Hecatomnus, the founder of the Hecatomnid dynasty of satraps of Caria. Not only her father,…