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Chandragupta Maurya (ruled 322–298 BC), also known as Sandrokottos to the Greeks, was the founder of the first imperial power in India, and became the first Emperor of the Mauryan Empire. The Mauryan empire, whose capital was Pataliputra (Modern day Patna)in East India, is acknowledged to be the greatest empire in ancient India, and lasted until 185 BC, fifty years after the death of Chandragupta's famous grandson, Emperor Ashoka. Prior to Chandragupta's consolidation of power, sma ...

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• Chandragupta Maurya - Trivia
• Chandragupta Maurya - Additional reading
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Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 304 BC 303 BC 302 BC 301 BC 300 BC 299 BC 298 BC 297 BC 296 BC 295 BC 294 BC Births Deaths Events Qin attacks 8 cities of Chu. Chu then sent an envoy to ask the King of Huai to go to Qin to negotiate peace. Qu Yuan risked his life to go up to the court to weigh the consequences to persuade K ...

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Taranto - Foundation and splendour. Taranto was founded in 708 BC by Spartan immigrants. It is the only Spartan colony, and its origin is peculiar: the founders are parthenii, sons of unmarried Spartan women and perioikoi (free men, but not citizens of Sparta); these unions were decided by the Spartans to increase the number of soldiers (only the citizens of Sparta could become soldiers) during the bloody Messenian wars, but later they were nullified, and the sons were forced to leave. Phalanthus, t ...

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The ancestry of Chandragupta is shrouded in mystery. Indian literary traditions connect him with the Nanda dynasty of Magadha. The Sanskrit drama Mudrarakashasa not only calls him Mauryaputra (Act II) but also a Nandanvaya (Act IV). The commentator on the Vishnu Purana informs us that Chandragupta was son of a Nanda prince and a dasi (Hindi:maid), Mura. But the commentator on Mudrarakshasa, states that Chandragupta was son of Maurya who in turn, was son of the Nanda king Sarvarthasiddhi by a wife named Mura, daughter of a shudra. Pandit Kshmendra and Somadeva call him Purva ...

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As a youth, Chandragupta was driven into exile by the reigning king of Magadha, a kinsman. In the course of his wanderings, he met the Brahmin Chanakya (also known as the "Indian Machiavelli"), who was the former preceptor of the Magadha court. Another anecdote recounts that Chanakya discovered a young Chandragupta who was tending goats. The last Nanda Magadha King, Dhana Nanda who was corrupted by power; banished Chanakya, who was the ...

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The name under which Edessa figures in cuneiform inscriptions is unknown; the later native name was Osroe, after its purported founder (who was probably only legend), this being the Armenian form for Chosroes; it became in Syriac Ourhoï, in Armenian Ourhaï in Arabic Er Roha, commonly Orfa or Sanli Urfa, its present name. Due to similarity of names, folk mythology in Islam connects Edessa with Ur as the abode of Abraham. Seleucus I Nicator, when he refounded the town as a military colony, mixing Macedonians and Greeks with its eastern popul ...

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Edessa Mesopotamia, Edessa Mesopotamia - History, Edessa Mesopotamia - Christianity, Edessa Mesopotamia - Cultural

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It is generally held that Chanakya was native of Magadha and was employed in the court of Dhana Nanda, the last king of Magadha. However, another view is that Chanakya actually belonged to Gandhara but had settled at Magadha to rent his services to the court of Magadha rulers. It is stated that king Dhana Nanda, corrupted by power, had once insulted Chanakya and banished him from his court over an insignificant dispute. Thus insulted and disgraced, Chanakya took a silent vow to destroy Dhana Nanda at an appropriate time. On his way back to T ...

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When he took over Magadha, Chandragupta Maurya inherited a great army from his predecessor, which he continued to build upon until it reached a total of thirty thousand cavalry, nine thousand war elephants, and six hundred thousand infantry (Megasthenes' book on India Indica, quotes an army of 600,000 with 9000 elephants). With this force, he overran all of Northern India, establishing an empire from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea. He then turned his attention to Northwestern India and the power vacuum left by the departure of Alexander. Starting with the lands east of the Indus River, he then moved sout ...

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Chandragupta Maurya, Chandragupta Maurya - Origin or ancestry, Chandragupta Maurya - Chanakya, Chandragupta Maurya - Expansion, Chandragupta Maurya - Jainism & death, Chandragupta Maurya - Family, Chandragupta Maurya - Trivia, Chandragupta Maurya - Additional reading, Chandragupta Maurya - External link

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When he took power, Chandragupta Maurya inherited a great army from his predecessor, which he continued to build upon until it reached a total of thirty thousand cavalry, nine thousand war elephants, and six hundred thousand infantry (Megasthenes' book on India Indica, quotes an army of 400,000 with 4000 elephants). With this force, he overran all of Northern India, establishing an empire from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea. He then turned his attention to Northwestern India and the power vacuum left by the departure of Alexander. Starting with the lands east of the Indus River, he then moved sout ...

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Chandragupta Maurya, Chandragupta Maurya - Origins, Chandragupta Maurya - Chanakya, Chandragupta Maurya - Expansion, Chandragupta Maurya - Jainism & death, Chandragupta Maurya - Family, Chandragupta Maurya - Trivia, Chandragupta Maurya - Additional reading, Chandragupta Maurya - External link

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Taranto became the capital of a Norman principality, whose first ruler was Robert Guiscard's son, Bohemond of Taranto, who obtained it as result of succession dispute: his father repudiated his first wife, Bohemond's mother, and had Roger Borsa, his son by his second wife Sikelgaita, succeed him as Duke of Apulia. Bohemond was compensated with Taranto and lands that covered almost all of the heel of Apulia. The principality of Taranto, during its 377 years of history, was sometimes a powerful and almost independent feudal fief of the Kingdom of Sicily (and later of Naples), sometimes only a title, often given to ...

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Taranto - Roman Republic and Empire. In 122 BC a Roman colony was founded next to Taranto, according to the law proposed by Gaius Sempronius Gracchus. The colony was named Neptunia, after the Roman sea god Neptune, worshipped by the Tarentines. The Roman colony was separate from the Greek city, and populated by Roman colons, but it was later unified to the main centre when Taranto become a municipium, in 89 BC. In 38 BC Mark Antony, Octavianus and Lepidus signed the Treaty of Tare ...

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The exact date of the introduction of Christianity into Edessa is not known. It is certain, however, that the Christian community was at first made up from the Jewish population of the city. According to a legend first reported by Eusebius in the 4th century, King Abgar V Ukāmā was converted by Addai, who was one of the seventy-two disciples, sent to him by "Judas, who is also called Thomas". According to Gutschmid (1887), the Abgar who embraced the Christian faith was Abgar IX, and Christian writers have not challenged the substitution. U ...

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Edessa Mesopotamia, Edessa Mesopotamia - History, Edessa Mesopotamia - Christianity, Edessa Mesopotamia - Cultural

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