The Grexkolan Wars

The **Grexkolan Wars** is a series of wars fought between around 600 BC until around 247 BC. Most of the leaders and major battles of this conflict go unnamed in both the Book of Veles and the Book of Yarillo, though Alexander the Great's Balkan and Persian campaign are implied to have been part of the wars, as per the Book of Yarillo.

## The Grexkolan Wars

### Location(s)

Khorshun, the Balkans, Armenia, Persia, Anatolia, the Danube, Scythia, Saramatia

### Result

Initial Greek victory with the fall of Achaemenid Persia, technical Arian victory with the establishment of Parthia, Greeks will continue to "meddle" in Ruskolan affairs for the next thousand years.

## Belligerents

### Slavic

Orey Ariant (600s - 550s BC), the seventy princes, Bus Kishek (330s BC), unknown Slavic leaders

### Greek

Alexander the Great (336 – 323 BC), Langarus (died 335 BC), Glaucias (335 – 295 BC), Hephaestion (356 - 324 BC), unknown Greek leaders

### Persian

Darius III (circa 380 – 330 BC), Artaxerxes V (died 329 BC), Arsites (300s BC), Memnon of Rhodes (380 – 333 BC), Azemilcus (330s BC), Ariobarzanes (died 330s BC), Madates (330s BC).

### other

Cleitus (Illyrian, circa 356 – 335 BC) Glaucias (Illyrian, circa 335 – 295 BC) Syrmus (Illyrian, circa 330s BC)

### Scythian

Ariapeithes (circa 450 BC), Scyles (circa 430 BC), Octamasadas (circa 430 BC), Ateas (429 – 339 BC) unknown Scythian rulers

## Commanders and Leaders

### Slavic

Orey Ariant (600s - 550s BC), the seventy princes, Bus Kishek (330s BC), unknown Slavic leaders

### Greek

Alexander the Great (336 – 323 BC), Langarus (died 335 BC), Glaucias (335 – 295 BC), Hephaestion (356 - 324 BC), unknown Greek leaders

### Persian

Darius III (circa 380 – 330 BC), Artaxerxes V (died 329 BC), Arsites (300s BC), Memnon of Rhodes (380 – 333 BC), Azemilcus (330s BC), Ariobarzanes (died 330s BC), Madates (330s BC).

### other

Cleitus (Illyrian, circa 356 – 335 BC) Glaucias (Illyrian, circa 335 – 295 BC) Syrmus (Illyrian, circa 330s BC)

### Scythian

Ariapeithes (circa 450 BC), Scyles (circa 430 BC), Octamasadas (circa 430 BC), Ateas (429 – 339 BC) unknown Scythian rulers

## The Khorshun incident

After the Slavs under Orey Ariant arrived back at Scythia following their invasion of the middle-east, they are implied in the Book of Veles to have established there capital at Khorshun. The Greeks (their trade partner), seeing an opportunity for power, saw that the Slavs loved to drink, and encouraged them to drink more. Soon, the Slavic guard became drunk, and the Greeks organized a military coup, taking full control of the city. Orey, who was apparently far away, gathered his armies and marched on Khorshun. The Slavs, apparently with the support of the gods Triglav and Svarog, they were able to push back and exile the Greeks. This would lead to distrust and conflict between Greeks and Slavs. After this, Orey Ariant would get a vision from Svarog, in which he sees things from the future like cars and tanks.

## Various battles

This period of time is very obscure and consists mostly of unnamed Slavic and unnamed Greek rulers fighting in unrecorded battles. This is when the story of the Scythian princes Scyles and Octamandas occurred.

## Greek victories

Alexander the Great, who is called "Lexandar Gretskolanski" in the Book of Yarillo, is said to have fought an Aria-tsar named Bus Kishek, after which the Arians lost control of the middle-east, issuing a long period of Greek control over that area (the Seleucid Empire). Meanwhile in Scythia, the war was more balanced and equally as obscure as the previous decades of the war.

## Slavic victory?

In the Book of Yarillo, the founding of the Parthian empire is seen as the Arians retaking their control from the Greeks, after which the "Grexkolan Wars" are said to have ended. Nevertheless, Greek "meddling" in Scythia would continue until the founding of the Kievan Rus' according to the Book of Veles.