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Achaean League

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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Achaemenid Kings

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 - November 530 Cambyses II before 31 August 530 - after 18 April 522 Smerdis 11…

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Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions

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…

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Achaemenids

Achaemenids (Old Persian: Hakhâmanišiya): royal dynasty of ancient Persia, named after its legendary founder Achaemenes (Hakhâmaniš).Origins Achaemenid bull According to the official…

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Achoris

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…

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Acropolis

Acropolis (Greek ἀκρόπολις, "upper city"): the citadel of an ancient Greek town. Corinth: temple of Apollo and Acrocorinth The acropolis of a Greek…

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Actium (31 BCE)

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

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…

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Ada

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,…

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