October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). There are 91 days remaining. October 1 - Events. 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. 959 - Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England. 965 - John XIII becomes Pope. 1788 - Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Viet Nam. 1791 - First session of the French Legislative Assembly. 1795 - Belgium is conquered by Fran ...

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Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC - 320s BC - 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 329 BC 328 BC 327 BC 326 BC 325 BC - 324 BC - 323 BC 322 BC 321 BC 320 BC 319 BC Events March: Alexander the Great returns to Susa and marries Statira, daughter of Darius III of Persia. In a mass marriage ceremony, his generals are married to daughters of Persian noblemen. August: Mutiny at Opis against Alexander is suppressed. Births Antiochus I Sote ...

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Arbil - Ancient history. Urban life at Arbil can be dated back to at least twenty-third century BCE. The city's archaeological museum contains only pre-Islamic objects. Arbil's name is thought to come from the Akkadian arba'ū ilū, meaning four gods. The city was a centre for the worship of the Assyrian goddess Ishtar. In classical times, the city was known by its Aramaic name, Arbela. The Battle of Gaugamela, in which Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia in 331 BCE, took place ...

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Arbil - Ancient history. Urban life at Arbil can be dated back to at least twenty-third century BCE. The city's archaeological museum contains only pre-Islamic objects. The name Arbil/Hawler was mentioned in the Sumerian holy writings (about 2000 B.C.) as "Orbelum" or "Urbilum". Also some think it come from the Akkadian arba'ū ilū, meaning four gods. The city was a centre for the worship of the Assyrian goddess Ishtar. In classical times, the city was known by its Aramaic name, Arbela. The ...

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Ancient history - Prehistory. c. 60th millennium BC - Modern humans migrate out of Africa and begin spreading across Asia c. 40th millennium BC - Australia first reached by modern humans c. 35th millennium BC - Europe first reached by modern humans 14th to 10th millennium BC - Americas first reached by humans 10th millennium BC - Invention of agriculture is the earliest given date for the beginning of Ancient Era 5th millennium BC - Possible invention of writing, ...

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It depicts the battle of Issus (333 BC) between Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia. Alexander defeated the Persian army, and his strength is clearly visible in the mosaic, which portrays Darius with a fearful facial expression. Despite being partially ruined, the two main figures are easily recognizable. The portrait of Alexander is one of his most famous ones, and the whole scene is very vivid. Alexander's breastplate depicts Medusa, the famous Gorgon. Oxyathres, the brother of Dariu ...

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Bactria was originally a province of the Persian Empire in Central Asia.(Cotterell, 59) It was in these regions, where the fertile soil of the mountainous country is surrounded by the Turanian desert, that the prophet Zoroaster preached and gained his first adherents. The sacred language in which the Avesta, the holy book of Zoroastrianism, is written, was once called "old Bactrian". Ba ...

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Hewler at night Geli Eli Beg Waterfall Ancient Hewler Citadel A Mosque in Hewler ...

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The fundamental difficulty of studying ancient history is the fact that only a fraction of it has been documented, and only a fraction of those recorded histories have survived into the present day. Literacy was not widespread in any culture until long after the end of ancient history, so there were few people capable of writing histories. Even those written histories which were produced were not widely distributed; the ancients, not having the luxury of a printing press had to make copies of books by hand. The Roman Empire was one of the an ...

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Following the settlement of the Yuezhi (described in the West as "Tocharians"), the general area of Bactria came to be called Tokharistan. From the 1st century CE to the 3rd century CE, Tokharistan was under the rule of the Kushans. They were followed by Sassanides (Indo-Sassanians). Later, in the 5th century, it was controlled by the Khionits and the Hephthalites. In the 7th century, after a brief rule under the Turkish Khaganats, it was conquered by the Arabs. This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, ...

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Ancient history - Europe and the Mediterranean. Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Carthage Etruscans Hittites Phoenicia Scythians Ancient history - East Asia. Ancient China Ancient Japan Ancient Korea Mongols Ancient Turks Huns Ancient history - Central and Southwest Asia. Ancient India A ...

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