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    Seleucus I Nicator (/səˈljuːkəs naɪˈkeɪtər/;[citation needed] c. 358 – 281 BC; Greek: Σέλευκος Νικάτωρ Séleukos Nikátōr Attic Greek pronunciation: [sé...
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    Darius I (Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Dārayavaʰuš; Greek: Δαρεῖος Dareios; c. 550 – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was a Persian ruler...
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    marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Wahibre Psamtik I (Ancient Egyptian: Wꜣḥ-jb-Rꜥ Psmṯk) was the first pharaoh of the Twenty-sixth...
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    Imagery as a Multicultural Expression of Royal and Divine Power Under Seleukos I Nikator". In Iossif, Panagiotis P.; Chankowski, Andrzej S.; Lorber, Catharine...
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    genealogy of the Achaemenids) the kings of Anshan were Teispes, Cyrus I, Cambyses I and Cyrus II, also known as Cyrus the Great, who founded the empire...
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    Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I in Greek) was the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the New Kingdom period, ruling c. 1294 or 1290...
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    place in pharaoh Ahmose I's reign (c. 1550–1525 BC), actually by Amenemhet's father. During the reign of pharaoh Thutmose I (1506–1493 BC), the names...
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  • and other Eastern noblewomen at Susa just before coming to Opis. Seleukos I Nikator (306–281 BC), one of Alexander's Diadochi (Successors), founded the...
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  • mongolovedenii︠a︡, buddologii i tibetologii (Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk. Sibirskoe otdelenie), eds. (2017). Aktualʹnye voprosy arkheologii i ėtnologii T︠S︡entralʹnoĭ...
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    Sumerians. Reliable historical records begin with Enmebaragesi (Early Dynastic I). The Sumerians progressively lost control to Semitic states from the northwest...
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    Nebuchadnezzar I (/nɛbjʊkədˈnɛzər/), reigned c. 1121–1100 BC, was the fourth king of the Second Dynasty of Isin and Fourth Dynasty of Babylon. He ruled...
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    identified as Archytas of Tarentum but now considered to be Pythagoras Seleukos I Nikator, unknown locale within the villa So-called Young Commander found in...
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    southern Canaan. Papyrus Harris I records some of Ramesses III's activities: I sent my emissaries to the land of Atika, [i.e., Timna] to the great copper...
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    Ahmose I (sometimes written as Amosis or Aahmes, meaning "Iah (the Moon) is born") was a pharaoh and founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, classified...
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  • Apama (category Seleucus I Nicator)
    Livius". www.livius.org. Retrieved 2020-10-24. Grainger, John D. (1990). Seleukos Nikator: Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom. New York: Routledge. p. 12. ISBN 0-415-04701-3...
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    cannot be confirmed due to the break in dynasties. His mother, Meresankh I was either a lesser wife or concubine of Huni. Egypt in the Third Millennium...
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    Possibly named after his grandfather of the same name, or after Nebuchadnezzar I (r. c. 1125–1104 BC), one of Babylon's greatest ancient warrior-kings, Nebuchadnezzar...
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    Roman Egypt (redirect from Aegyptus I)
    and in the reign of Justin I (r. 518–527), the Blemmyes again made attacks on Upper Egypt.: 32  Justin's successor Justinian I (r. 527–565) and his wife...
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    Babylonian period. In the north, the Amorite ruler of Ekallatum, Shamshi-Adad I conquered Assur and formed the large, though short-lived Kingdom of Upper...
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    Chronology, I. Egypt to the end of the Twentieth Dynasty", in Edwards, I.E.S.; Gadd, C.J. (eds.), The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume I, Part I, Cambridge{{citation}}:...
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    burnt to the ground in about 145 BC. The last Greco-Bactrian king, Heliocles I, retreated and moved his capital to the Kabul Valley. In about 140–130 BC...
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    empires. I built a pillar over against the city gate and I flayed all the chiefs who had revolted and I covered the pillar with their skins. Some I impaled...
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    the order, I defeated Sippar. I took the stele of Naram-Sin and carried it off, bringing it to the land of Elam. For Inshushinak, my god, I set it as an...
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    statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. Yet for the sake of David your father I will not...
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    been elaborated in Kyle McCarter's influential commentary on I Samuel (P. Kyle McCarter, "I Samuel: A New Translation with Introduction, Notes and Commentary"...
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    appointed me as his gardener. While I was gardener Ishtar granted me her love, and for four and (fifty?) ... years I exercised kingship. Later claims made...
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    Antiochus I Soter (Greek: Ἀντίοχος Σωτήρ, Antíochos Sōtér; "Antiochus the Savior"; c. 324/3 – 2 June 261 BC) was a Macedonian king of the Seleucid Empire...
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    of Judea during the Iron I and Iron II periods has little room for historicizing readings of the stories of I-II Samuel and I Kings. Redford 1992, pp. 301–302:...
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  • Ugarit (redirect from Ammishtamru I)
    "So you had written to me: “Could I not have demanded my needs [from] the Great King, the king of Egypt, my lord? I demand this request: [In] the land...
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    Sakas, who moved further south. Archaeological structures are known in Takht-i Sangin, Surkh Kotal (a monumental temple), and in the palace of Khalchayan...
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