Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 3 : Historical Atlas of the Ancient World

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The Achaemenid Kingdom (6th to 4th cents. BC)
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The Achaemenid Empire was more than just the first great Persian empire; for under the rule of the Teispids (i.e. the kings before Darius I) and the Achaemenids (from Darius I), it unified for the first time all of the Near and Middle East and then kept it together, mostly in peace. It lasted from c. 550 (conquest of the Median kingdom) until 330 BC, when it was itself conquered by…

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Wittke, A.-M., Wiesehöfer, J., Klinkott, H. and Sommer, M., “The Achaemenid Kingdom (6th to 4th cents. BC)”, in: Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 3 : Historical Atlas of the Ancient World, English edition by Christine Salazar (2010). Original German-language edition: Historischer Atlas der antiken Welt. Herausgegeben von Anne-Maria Wittke,Eckhart Olshausen und Richard Szydlak. Serie: Der Neue Pauly Supplemente 1. Staffel, herausgegeben von Hubert Cancik, Manfred Landfester und Helmuth Schneider, vol. 3. Stuttgart, Germany. Copyright © J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH (2007). Consulted online on 17 February 2019 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-8647_bnps3_BNPA086>
First published online: 2011
First print edition: 9789004167834, 20091241



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