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Darius I

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Darius
Keeng o Persie
Pharoah o Egyp
Relief o Darius I in Persepolis
Keeng o Persie
RingSeptember 522 BCE to
October 486 BCE (36 years)
CoronationPasargadae
PredecessorBardiya
SuccessorXerxes I
Born550 BCE
Dee'dOctober 486 BCE
(aged approximately 64)
BuirialNaqsh-e Rustam, Iran
SpouseAtossa; Artystone; Parmys; Phratagone; Phaidime; a dauchter o Gobryas
IssueArtobazanes, Xerxes, Ariabignes, Arsamenes , Masistes, Achaemenes (satrap), Arsames, Gobryas, Ariomardos, Abriokomas, Hyperantes, Artazostre
Full name
Dārayava(h)uš
DynastyAchaemenid
FaitherHystaspes
MitherRhodogune
ReleegionZoroastrianism
mn
Aa1 ib
serekh or Horus name
N5st
t
w
praenomen or throne name
N16
E23
V4M8
nomen or birth name
Horus name: Menkeib
Throne name: Stutre
Birth name: Darius[1]
in hieroglyphs

Darius I (Auld Persie: Dārayava(h)uš, c. 550–486 BCE) wis the third king o the Persie Achaemenid Empire.

References

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  1. Jürgen von Beckerath, Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen (= Münchner ägyptologische Studien, vol 46), Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1999. ISBN 3-8053-2310-7, pp. 220–21.