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	Persia
		Persia proper is bounded on the north by Transcaucasia, the Caspian Sea, and Russian Turkestan; on the south by the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf; it is over one-fifth as large as the United States (excluding Alaska) and twice as large as Germany, having an area of about 642,000 square miles.
		Pherecles, the Seleucid satrap, having insulted Tiridates, was slain, and Parthia freed from the Macedonians.
		On his arrival in Persia, Mgr Cluzel was immediately acknowledged by the shah, decorated with the insignia of the Lion and Sun, and officially confirmed, by a special imperial firman, as the representative of the Father of the Faithful.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/p/persia.html (14929 words)

	Sogdianus Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sogdianus, king of Persia (424 - 423 BC).
		He is an obscure historical figure known primarily from the writings of Ctesias.
		The second was Sogdianus himself, possibly recognized in Elam.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/s/so/sogdianus.html (233 words)

	Darius II of Persia
		Darius II, originally called Ochus, was emperor of Persia from 423 BC to 404 BC.
		After a month and a half Xerxes was murdered by his brother Secydianus or Sogdianus (the form of the name is uncertain).
		His illegitimate brother, Ochus, satrap of Hyrcania, rebelled against Sogdianus, and after a short fight killed him, and suppressed by treachery the attempt of his own brother Arsites to imitate his example.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/da/Darius_II_of_Persia.html (248 words)

	Xerxes II Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After a reign of forty-five days, he was assassinated in 424 BC by his brother Sogdianus, who in turn was murdered by Darius II.
		The first was Sogdianus, son by concubine Alogyne of Babylon.
		Xerxes was apparently only recognized in Persia and Sogdianus in Elam.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/x/xe/xerxes_ii.html (244 words)

	Persia
		Persia proper was a tract of no very large dimensions on the Persian Gulf, which is still known as Fars or Farsistan, a corruption of the ancient appellation.
		Persia was doubtless in early times included in Elam, and its population was then either Semitic or allied to the Accadians, who founded more than one state in the Babylonian plain.
		It was reconquered and thoroughly organized by Darius, the son of Hystaspes, whose dominions extended from India to the Danube.
	holycall.com /biblemaps/persia.htm (1071 words)

	Learn more about Achaemenid dynasty in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Persia saw a sequence of weak rulers ruling the empire.
		At the height of their power, the Achaemenid rulers of Persia ruled over territories roughly emcompassing some parts of Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Pakistan, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Armenia, Central Asia, Caucasia and the Asian portion of Turkey.
		Ariaramnes of Persia, son of Teispes and co-ruler of Cyrus I. Cambyses I of Anshan, son of Cyrus I. Arsames of Persia, son of Ariaramnes and co-ruler of Cambyses I
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /a/ac/achaemenid_dynasty.html (565 words)

	Persia
		Abbas II (1632-1667) Shah of Persia 1642-67, the son of Safi I and the great-grandson of Abbas I. He received various embassies from Europe and recaptured Kandahar 1648, which had been lost by his predecessor to the Mogul emperors.
		Abbas III (1732-1736) Shah of Persia 1732-36, the son of Tahmasp II.
		Intrigues and insurrections against Khosrau began to arise in Persia, and the Byzantine emperor Heraclius took advantage of this domestic weakness to defeat the Persian monarch in a campaign from 623 to 628.
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/persia.htm (3696 words)

	Qwika - List of kings of Persia
		Achaemenid dynasty, 550–330 BC Achaemenes, founder of the dynasty, king of Persia.
		Ariaramnes of Persia, son of Teispes, king of Persia.
		Arsames of Persia, son of Ariaramnes, king of Persia until 550, died after 520.
	wikipedia.qwika.com /wiki/List_of_kings_of_Persia (1376 words)

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		In 559 BC, Cambyses I the Elder was succeeded as king of Anڑān by his son Cyrus II the Great, who also succeeded the still-living Arsames as King of Persia, thus reuniting the two realms.
		Ariaramnes of Persia, son of Teispes and co-ruler with Cyrus I
		Arsames of Persia, son of Ariaramnes and co-ruler with Cambyses I
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Achaemenid_dynasty (4192 words)

	Achaemenid Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Achaemenid Dynsty is for Persia often defined as going back a further 100 years, to around 650 BCE.
		This period was one of much cultural and ecnomical progress for Persia.
		Persia would be annexed into the domains of Alexanxer the Great, from which the Seleucid Dynasty would emerge some 20 years later.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/achaemenid_dyn.htm (269 words)

	Persian Period in Anatolia and Asia Minor
		Cyrus was an able soldier and a great statesman and he was also a merciful king, one of his deeds was to grant the Jews to return from their exile in Babylon to their home land in Israel and rebuild the temple of Solomon.
		For the next two centuries, until the arrival of Alexander the great and the conquest of Persia by him, the Persian empire was the super power of the ancient world.
		After Artaxerxes had died, his son Xerxes II has been the king of Persia for a few weeks until he was murdered by his half brother, Sogdianus.
	www.ancientanatolia.com /historical/persian_period.htm (2051 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 942 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When sogdianus, another bastard son of Artaxerxes, had murdered the king, Xerxes II., he called Ochus to his court.
		Arba-rius, the commander of the royal cavalry, Arxames, the satrap of Egypt, and Artoxares, the satrap of Armenia, deserted to him, and placed the diadem upon his head, according to Ctesias, against his will, B.
		Sogdianus gave himself up to Ochus, and was put to death.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0948.html (876 words)

	Xerxes II
		Our only source for the reign of Xerxes II and Sogdianus is the Greek author Ctesias of Cnidus, one of the most unreliable writers from Antiquity.
		However, one of his half-brothers, Sogdianus, the son of Artaxerxes and a Babylonian woman named Alogyne, conspired against him.
		Probably Ochus and Sogdianus declared themselves kings at the same moment, when they heard of their father's death.
	www.livius.org /x/xerxes/xerxes_ii.html (475 words)

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		The greatest poet of Persia has beautifully said : " Feridoon the glorious was not; an angel ; he was not made of musk and amber; it was by his justice and his generosity that he won his great renown.
		But he unloosed the lasso, which the warriors of Persia used so skilfully in those times and flung it over one of the battle ments instead, and thus he was ableto pull himself up to the top of the wall.
		Thus the empire of Persia, in a critical period of its existence, was left without a king or any direct heir to the sceptre.
	fax.libs.uga.edu /DS272xB4/1f/persia.txt (6023 words)

	Terms
		The Achaemenids (c.550–330 B.C.) were important for their development of government administration, the appearance of literature written in cuneiform, and the spread of Zoroastrianism; during this period there was also a great flourishing of Persian art and architecture.
		The Achaemenid rulers after Cyrus were Cambyses II, the impostor Smerdis, Darius I, Xerxes I, Artaxerxes I, Xerxes II, Sogdianus, Darius II, Artaxerxes II (opposed by Cyrus the Younger), Artaxerxes III, Arses, and Darius III.
		The period of their dominion extended from c.A.D. 224, when the Parthians were overthrown and the capital, Ctesiphon, was taken, until c.640, when the country fell under the power of the Arabs.
	www.shangrala.org /RELIGIONS/12Zoroastrianism/Terms.html (2676 words)

	499 to 400 BC World History - Din Timelines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		+ of Persia is killed by the captian of the royal guard.
		His son Xerxes II takes the throne but he is murdered by his brother Sogdianus after a few weeks.
		Sogdianus is then murdered by his half brother (bastard son of their father) who then takes the throne and rules under the assumed name of Darius II.
	din-timelines.com /bce0499-0400_timeline.shtml (1548 words)

	Xerxes II
		After all, he was not only a bastard son of Artaxerxes, but he was also his son-in-law, because he was married to Parysatis, the daughter of Artaxerxes and a third Babylonian concubine named Andia.
		He refused to do homage to Sogdianus; instead, he conspired with the commander of the cavalry, Arbarios, and became king.
		Sogdianus had been king for six months and fifteen days.
	www.afghanchamberofcommerce.com /history/xerxes_ii.htm (262 words)

	Darius 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		(?-404 BCE) King of Persia 423-404 BCE (including the territory of Egypt), belonging to the Achaemenid dynasty.
		He was often called Nothus, "Bastard", referring to him being the son of King Artaxerxes 1 and a concubine.
		Sogdianus had been king for only a month.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/darius2.htm (178 words)

	Smith's Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org
		The only passage in Scripture where Persia designates the tract which has been called above "Persia proper" is (Ezekiel 38:5) Elsewhere the empire is intended.
		This conquest was followed closely by the submission of the Greek settlements on the Asiatic coast, and by the reduction of Caria and Lycia The empire was soon afterward extended greatly toward the northeast and east.
		His successors were Xerxes II., Sogdianus Darius Nothus, Artaxerxes Mnemon, Artaxerxes Ochus, and Darius Codomannus, who is probably the "Darius the Persian" of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 12:22) These monarchs reigned from B.C. 424 to B.C. The collapse of the empire under the attack of Alexander the Great took place B.C. Copyright Statement
	www.studylight.org /dic/sbd/print.cgi?number=T3387 (759 words)

	Restoration and Persian Rule
		Sogdianus followed Darius II with an extremely brief reign; one too insignificant to even warrant being listed with the other rulers.
		The Greeks, fearing that Persia was on the rise again, formed an alliance with Artaxerxes in order to prevent war.
		Those who opposed this alliance with Persia, led by Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander (later to be known as Alexander the Great), overthrew Athens in 338 BC and gained control of Greece.
	www.zianet.com /maxey/Inter1.htm (2786 words)

	Persians (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
		Darius united the latter river with the Red Sea by a canal, the partly obliterated inscription commemorating which may perhaps be thus restored and rendered: "I am a Persian; with Persia I seized Egypt.
		Darius' expedition into Scythia, his success in subduing the rebellion among the Asiatic Greeks, his attempts to conquer Greece itself and his overthrow at Marathon (499-490 BC) are part of the history of Greece.
		Persia (Parsua) is first mentioned as a country in an inscription of Rammanu Nirari III (WAI, I, plate 35, number 1, l.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/6823 (1715 words)

	PERSIA - ATS Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org
		In Hebrew Paras, Ezekiel 27:10, a vast region in Asia, the southwestern province of which lying between ancient media on the north and the Persian Gulf on the south, appears to have been the ancient Persia, and is still called Pharsistan, or Fars.
		It is not improbable that, during this period, petty revolutions might have occasioned temporary disjunctions of Persia from Assyria, and that the Persian king was quickly again made sensible of his true allegiance.
		Modern Persia is bounded north by Georgia, the Caspian sea, and Tartary; east by Afghanistan and Beloochistan; south by Ormus; and west by the dominions of Turkey.
	www.studylight.org /dic/ats/view.cgi?number=T1593 (434 words)

	Persia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The name "Persia" seized to be used in 1935, and replaced with "Iran".
		The name came from an area in southern Iran called Persia, but came to be used for the larger area with the expansion performed by the Greeks in the last centuries BCE.
		The name Persia was used up until 1935, when there came a demand to change from Persia considered to be non-Western into the name used by people of the region: Iran.
	www.lexicorient.com /e.o/persia.htm (245 words)

	Egyptian Pharaohs : Late Kingdom : Dynasty 27 (Persian Period) :
		The 28th Dynasty is also known as the First Persian Period, for all the rulers during this time are foreign kings.
		Most held the throne in Persia as well as nominally ruling Egypt, although most of them never even visited the remote land they declared soverignty over.
		The focus of most of htese kings was to war with Athens, with Egypt falling a far second in interest.
	www.phouka.com /pharaoh/pharaoh/dynasties/dyn27/dyn27.html (133 words)

	Sogdianus of Persia - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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		He was reportedly murdered while drunk by Pharnacyas and Menostanes on Sogdianus' orders.
		You can find it there under the keyword Sogdianus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogdianus)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sogdianusandaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Sogdianus (320 words)

	Financing Civilization
		The eldest son Xerxes II seized the throne, only to be murdered 45 days later by his cunning half-brother Sogdianus, who, with one treacherous act suddenly held in his grasp the entire Persian Empire, from the Zagros mountains to the Mediterranean.
		While Sogdianus may have had the throne, another son of Artraxerxes had the support and sponsorship of some of Persia's most powerful landowners.
		One of Sogdianus' first imperial acts was to summon his powerful half-brother to the imperial city of Susa -- perhaps to put him under the sword and consolidate his power.
	viking.som.yale.edu /will/finciv/chapter1.htm (8030 words)

	Dusharm, Dream of Persia - The Achaemenid Dynasty
		At the height of their power, the Achaemenid rulers of Persia ruled over territories roughly encompassing some parts of today's Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Pakistan, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Armenia, Central Asia, Caucasia and the Asian portion of Turkey.
		After the practice of Manetho, Egyptian historians refer to the period in Egypt when the Achaemenid dynasty ruled as the Twenty-seventh (525 BC - 404 BC) and Thirty-first Dynasties (343 - 332 BC).
		Inscriptions indicate that when Teispes died, two of his sons shared the throne as Cyrus I (Kūru), king of Anšān, and Ariaramnes (Ariyāramna "Having the Iranians at Peace"), king of Parsua (later called Pārsa "Persia", hence Fārsi, the native name for modern Persian).
	www.dusharm.com /content/view/7/1 (899 words)

	Persia: Late Persian Empire :: 0 A.D. :: Wildfire Games
		During the Peloponnesian War, Artaxerxes supplied the Spartans with funds, a fruitful policy that brought back Ionia to the Persian sphere of influence half a century later.
		After his death, two of his sons, Xerxes II (424 BC) and Sogdianus (423 BC) sat on the throne in quick succession and were both murdered before another his sons, Darius II (423 BC - 405 BC), could firmly assume power.
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	Darius II Ochus
		Executive summary: King of Persia, 423-404 BC Artaxerxes I, who died in the beginning of 424, was followed by his son Xerxes II.
		But after a month and a half he was murdered by his brother Secydianus, or Sogdianus (the form of the name is uncertain).
		Against him rose a bastard brother, Ochus, satrap of Hyrcania, and after a short fight killed him, and suppressed by treachery the attempt of his own brother Arsites to imitate his example.
	www.nndb.com /people/937/000096649 (201 words)

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