Queen

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Artemisia of Halicarnassus

Artemisia: queen of Halicarnassus in c. 480 BCE, ally of the Persian king Xerxes during his invasion of Greece.Halicarnassus was a Graeco-Carian city that belonged to the empire of the Persian Achaemenids. The Persian authorities liked their cities to be…

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Artystone

Artystone (Elamite Irtašduna) was the daughter of the Persian king Cyrus the Great (559-530 BCE) and a wife of king Darius I the Great (522-486). …

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Atossa

Atossa (Elamite Udusana) was the daughter of the Persian king Cyrus the Great (559-530 BCE) and the first wife of king Darius I the Great (522-486). …

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Azarmedukht

Azarmedukht: queen of Persia, ruling in 631, member of the Sasanian dynasty.Main deeds: Name: Azarmedukht The Sasanian king Khusrau II fought a long war against the Byzantines, but was defeated by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius. In 628, Khusrau was replaced by his son Kavad…

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Berenice II

Berenice II (after 270-221): queen of the Ptolemaic Empire.Relatives: Berenice II Father: Magas of Cyrene Mother: Apame II First husband: Demetrius the Fair, the…

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