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The Scythian campaign of Darius I was a military expedition into parts of European Scythia by Darius I, the king of the Achaemenid Empire, in 513 BC. [6] The Scythians were an East Iranian-speaking people who had invaded Media, revolted against Darius and threatened to disrupt trade between Central Asia and the shores of the Black Sea as they lived between the Danube and Don Rivers and the ...
Scythian campaign of Darius I; M. First Mithridatic War This page was last edited on 18 August 2018, at 13:34 (UTC). Text ...
Darius conquered large portions of Eastern Europe, even crossing the Danube to wage war on the Scythians. Darius invaded European Scythia in 513 BCE, [ 45 ] where the Scythians evaded Darius's army, using feints and retreating eastwards while laying waste to the countryside, by blocking wells, intercepting convoys, destroying pastures and ...
Megabazus led the army of the Persian King Darius I in 513 BC during his European Scythian campaign.After this had to be discontinued without result, Megabazos was left as commander-in-chief of an 80,000-man army in Europe, with the mission of subjugating the Greek cities on the Hellespont.
Tomyris leads the Scythian civilization in the 2016 4X video game Civilization VI developed by Firaxis Games. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Washington D.C.-based, female-fronted, heavy metal band A Sound of Thunder , features a song titled "Tomyris," based on the historical figure, on their sixth full-length album It Was Metal released in 2018.
The Scythian conquest of Media itself, in turn, marked the beginning of a nearly 30-year long period of Scythian hegemony in West Asia [229] which Graeco-Roman authors later called the "Scythian rule over Upper Asia," [230] and during which the Scythian kingdom held hegemony not only in Trauscaucasia and Mannai, but would soon extend their rule ...
The Behistun Inscription (also Bisotun, Bisitun or Bisutun; Persian: بیستون, Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning "the place of god") is a multilingual Achaemenid royal inscription and large rock relief on a cliff at Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, established by Darius the Great (r.
Skudra (Old Persian: 𐎿𐎤𐎢𐎭𐎼, romanized: Skudra) was a province of the Persian Achaemenid Empire in Europe between 510s BC and 479 BC. Its name is attested in Persian and Egyptian inscriptions (an Egyptian record of c. 498–497 BC, and a list on the tomb of Darius the Great at Naqsh-e Rustam, c. 486 BC. [1]