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Xerxes I of Persia

Xerxes I of Persia

Xerxes the Great, also known as Xerxes I of Persia, (Old Persian: ; Xšayāršā) (reigned 485–465 BC) was a Zoroastrian Persian Shahanshah (Emperor) of the Achaemenid Empire. Xerxes was the son of Darius the Great and his wife Atossa. He succeeded his father in 486 BC with a very smooth transition of...
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Atossa

Atossa (from Old Persian *Utauθa, and Avestan Hutaosā) was an Achaemenid queen and daughter of Cyrus the Great. She lived from 550-475 BC and probably a sister (or half-sister) of Cambyses II, Atossa married Darius I sometime in 522 BC after Darius,...

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  • 550 B.C.E.

Date of death:

  • 475 B.C.E. (age 75 years)

Darius I of Persia

Darius I of Persia (550–486 BCE) also known as Darius the Great was the third Achaemenid Zoroastrian emperor. According to Encyclopedia Iranica, Darius held the Persian Empire at its strongest peak, and that the decay and downfall of the empire...

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  • 549 B.C.E.

Date of death:

  • Oct 486 B.C.E. (age 62 years)
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