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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Scythian campaign of Darius I; M. First Mithridatic War This page was last edited on 18 August 2018, at 13:34 (UTC). Text ...
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.
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.
Scopasis (Ancient Greek: Σκώπασις Skṓpasis) was a 6th-century BC Scythian king of the Sauromatae tribe. The Greek historian Herodotus mentions him in his Histories, as he and the kings Taxakis and Idanthyrsus commanded the three divisions of the Scythian forces, when Scythia was invaded by Darius I of Persia in between 520 and 507 BC (most likely in 513 BC). [1]
[1] [2] This corresponds with the remark made by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus (1.216.3) that "they live on their livestock and fish." [1] Schmitt notes that objections to this reasoning, based on the assumption that, instead of masi̯a-, a derivation from Iranian *kapa-"fish" (compare Ossetian кӕф (kæf)) would be expected, is "not ...