' Indus valley') to Lydia ( Old Persian: 'Spardâ') – what Ahuramazda, the greatest of gods, bestowed upon me. King Darius says: This is the kingdom which I hold, from the Sacae who are beyond Sogdia to Kush, and from Sind ( Old Persian: 𐏃𐎡𐎭𐎢𐎺, 'Hidauv', locative of ' Hiduš', i.e. In the foundation tablets of Apadana Palace, Darius described in Old Persian cuneiform the extent of his Empire in broad geographical terms: ĭarius the great king, king of kings, king of countries, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenid. In addition, further texts and monuments from Persepolis have been found, as well as a clay tablet containing an Old Persian cuneiform of Darius from Gherla, Romania (Harmatta) and a letter from Darius to Gadates, preserved in a Greek text of the Roman period. Darius mentions several times that he is the rightful king by the grace of the supreme deity Ahura Mazda. To aid the presentation of his ancestry, Darius wrote down the sequence of events that occurred after the death of Cyrus the Great. The inscription begins with a brief autobiography including his ancestry and lineage.

They all had the same trilingual inscription (DPh inscription).Īt some time between his coronation and his death, Darius left a tri-lingual monumental relief on Mount Behistun, which was written in Elamite, Old Persian and Babylonian. He had the cliff-face Behistun Inscription carved at Mount Behistun to record his conquests, which would later become an important testimony of the Old Persian language.ĭarius is mentioned in the books of Haggai, Zechariah and Ezra–Nehemiah of the Hebrew Bible. Darius worked on other construction projects throughout the empire, primarily focusing on Susa, Pasargadae, Persepolis, Babylon and Egypt. Through these changes, the Achaemenid Empire became centralized and unified. He also put the empire in better standing by building roads and introducing standard weighing and measuring systems.

He organized Achaemenid coinage as a new uniform monetary system, and made Aramaic a co-official language of the empire alongside Persian. Although his campaign ultimately resulted in failure at the Battle of Marathon, he succeeded in the re-subjugation of Thrace and expanded the Achaemenid Empire through his conquests of Macedon, the Cyclades and the island of Naxos as well as the sacked Greek city of Eretria.ĭarius organized the empire by dividing it into administrative provinces that were governed by satraps. The new king met with rebellions throughout his kingdom and quelled them each time a major event in Darius' life was his expedition to subjugate Greece and punish Athens and Eretria for their participation in the Ionian Revolt. ĭarius ascended the throne by overthrowing the legitimate Achaemenid monarch Bardiya, whom he later fabricated to be an imposter named Gaumata. He ruled the empire at its territorial peak, when it included much of Western Asia, parts of the Balkans ( Thrace– Macedonia and Paeonia) and the Caucasus, most of the Black Sea's coastal regions, Central Asia, the Indus Valley in the far east, and portions of North Africa and Northeast Africa including Egypt ( Mudrâya), eastern Libya, and coastal Sudan. 550 – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 522 BCE until his death in 486 BCE. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates.Darius I ( Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Dārayavaʰuš Greek: Δαρεῖος Dareios c. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. Year should not be greater than current year

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