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Xerxes I

Type Figure Region Persia Time c. -519–-465 Also known as Xerxes I、Xerxes the Great、薛西斯大帝、Khshayarsha

Xerxes I, son of Darius I, born c. 519 BCE and died 465 BCE, was the fourth ruler of the Achaemenid Persian Empire;…

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  1. c. -519–-486Persepolis · Fars ProvinceSon of Darius I and Queen Atossa, he grew up under his father's rule and received a royal education. In Darius's later years he was ordered to suppress the Egyptian revolt, gaining military and political experience.
  2. -486–-480Susa · Khuzestan ProvinceAfter acceding in 486 BCE he successively quelled the revolts in Egypt and Babylon, consolidating imperial rule. He prepared for the second Greco-Persian War, assembling land and naval forces and building a pontoon bridge across the Hellespont.
  3. -480Thermopylae · Central GreeceHe personally led a great army to invade Greece, defeating Leonidas's Spartan force at Thermopylae, but the Athenian fleet under Themistocles inflicted a heavy defeat on him at the naval battle of Salamis, forcing him to abandon the further advance into the Peloponnese.
  4. -479–-465Persepolis · Fars ProvinceAfter the Greco-Persian War he turned to domestic affairs and palace construction, continuing to expand Persepolis. In 465 BCE he was assassinated in a palace coup by Artabanus and others among his close attendants.

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