Darius iii

Description Darius III was the king of the Persian Empire during the Asian military campaign of Alexander the Great. At the battle of Gaugamela, after which Alexander was proclaimed king of Persia in Babylon, Darius and his men retreated from the battlefield and escaped to Central Asia, to the provinces of the empire that were still under Achaemenid (Persian) control. There, in the north east of the empire, in the satrapies (provinces) of Bactria and Sogdiana, Darius hoped to assemble a new…

Darius and his army as portrayed in "Alexander"

This concept by Joan Francesc Oliveras Pallerols depicts what a guardsman in the Immortals, a famous Persian army reportedly numbering 10,000 soldiers, might have looked like.

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The Immortals (from the Greek , Athnatoi) also known as the Immortals Army (Persian ) or Persian Warriors (Persian ) was the name given by Herodotus to an elite heavy infantry unit of 10,000 soldiers in the army of the Achaemenid Empire. This force performed the

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