Darius III

Darius III (c. 380 – July 330 BC) was first named Artashata. He was called Codomannus by the Greeks. Darius III was the last Persian Shah (king) of the Persian Achaemenid Empire of Persia.Alexander the Great at War: His Army - His Battles - His Enemies, ed. Waldemar Heckel (Oxford: Osprey, 2002), p. 24 He ruled from 336 BC to 330 BC. Artashata took Darius as his dynastic name.

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Category:Persian people
Category:History of Persia