Alexander the Great was unsuccessful in his aims to capture the hilltop fortress here, the ruins of which remain to be explored. |
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If our recognition of a Greek idiom in Ecclesiastes is valid, it points to a date posterior to the conquest of Alexander the Great. |
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Interested in Greek as well as Ottoman and Persian culture, he was eager to present himself to posterity as the new Alexander the Great. |
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Obviously, the hero needed a noble name and Alexander the Great suggested itself straight away. |
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The vast majority of the peoples conquered by Alexander the Great have willingly allowed themselves to be Hellenized. |
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During 800 BC Alexander the Great conquered the Grecian Empire of city-states and Greece became part of the Macedonian Empire. |
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In nineteen of them the biographies of famous Greeks and Romans such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar are compared. |
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He accompanied Alexander the Great on his conquest of northern India, where he encountered Indian gymnosophists or naked wise men. |
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It was a curious remark to make for one who dreamed of emulating Alexander the Great. |
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The beginning of the Hellenistic age is defined as the rise to power of Alexander the Great. |
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In ancient Greece the tendency towards greater professionalism reached its climax with the Macedonian army of Alexander the Great. |
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Even Alexander the Great had to recompense an Athenian who was robbed on the way to Olympia. |
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Alexander the Great and his generals introduced the practice to the Phoenicians, Egyptians and Carthaginians. |
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It had once been an island city, but Alexander the Great had conquered it by building an isthmus from the mainland out to the island. |
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Then, at the head of the Greek Empire, Alexander the Great overcame the Medo-Persian Empire. |
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As Alexander the Great said, Afghanistan is easy to march into but hard to march out of. |
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Intended by the Achaemenid emperor Darius I to be his grand capital, Persepolis was torched by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. before it was even completed. |
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During the time of Alexander the Great it was a navigable lake, but it is now an extensive mudflat, inundated during monsoon seasons. |
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According to legend, Alexander the Great cut the 'Gordian knot' with his sword, thus acquiring dominion over Asia. |
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Then the Medo-Persian Empire fell into the hands of the Greek Empire, led by Alexander the Great. |
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Diogenes was sunning himself under a tree in Athens when the Emperor Alexander the Great walked through the town with his courtiers. |
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The company's shareholders must hope that Jeff Bezos, Amazon's omnipotent boss, will have a better answer than Alexander the Great. |
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Archeological finds at the Amphipolis tomb may date back to Alexander the Great. |
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According to this surah, Alexander the Great traveled west until he found out what happened to the sun. |
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Alexander the Great planned to build a port city at this location for the trade and communication with his Indus valley satrapy and his empire. |
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Some 150 itineraries have already been established, including the Alexander the Great, the Marco Polo and the Tamerlane routes. |
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The worship of Serapis, and Egyptian deity, was brought into Greece in around 280BC by Ptolemy I the Saviour, the heir of Alexander the Great. |
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From Alexander the Great on, India's north-western frontier was the route of choice for invaders. |
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The Alexander the Great campaign recounts the young king's conquest of Asia. |
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The kingdom of Macedonia under Alexander the Great spanned from Greece to India. |
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Important characters in history, as Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, were his admirers. |
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Lacking an Alexander the Great or a Charlemagne, it draws its heroic mythology from sports. |
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But the conquests of Alexander the Great between 334 BC and 324 BC spread the use and acceptance of Greek coinage. |
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Empire of Alexander the Great expands into Asia. Greek culture into Central Asia. |
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About a month ago, our patrol brought us to PSS 6, a district known for a historic castle said to have been built by Alexander the Great. |
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Alexander the Great is reputed to have gone down in a diving bell, while Roman urinatores apparently salvaged cargo from a wreck 20m deep off the south of France. |
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Alexander the Great fashioned himself after Achilles and very much identified with him. |
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Alexander the Great absorbed into his empire all of the territories in the Neo-Babylonian, Median, and Achaemenid Empires, but the Roman Empire came nowhere close to doing so. |
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Others contend that Greek mercenaries who came to India with Alexander the Great left their genetic mark in coorg. |
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Fans of archaeology shouldn't miss the Istanbul Archaeological Museums which are exhibiting the Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great and various Lydian tombs. |
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The city has existed for at least 5,000 years and saw successive periods of Urartian, Assyrian and Persian rule before succumbing to Alexander the Great. |
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The Macedonian king, Alexander the Great, conquered Greece, Persia, and Egypt to create an empire, and he carried the idea of Hellenism to places as far away as India. |
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Alexander the Great was born in Macedonia, just outside Greece. |
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It also includes several passages about hypothetical flying machines and submarines, attributing their first use to Alexander the Great. |
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The Committee often heard people wondering how we could hope for any military success in Afghanistan, given Afghan success at defeating occupying armies of Alexander the Great, the British and the Soviet Union. |
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No massive incursions or large-scale infiltrations from the steppe into the Middle East took place, therefore, until after the overthrow of the Persian Empire at the hands of Alexander the Great in 330 bc. |
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In the late 4th century BC, Alexander the Great sent Greek naval expeditions down the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean. |
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No, this is pure toponymic irredentism — both states disputing the right to use the name Macedonia, the birthplace of Alexander the Great, arguably the greatest Greek hero this side of the Olympos. |
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Alexander the Great annexed Kābul to Bactria and founded Alexandria-Kapisu, a city astride the Indian caravan route, to serve as the province's capital. |
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This was mainly destructive, though not entirely so: The conquests of soldier-statesmen like Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Tamerlane helped to spread learning, art and public works through Europe, Africa and Asia. |
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The next major step in the development of the Silk Road was the expansion of the Greek empire of Alexander the Great into Central Asia. |
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The unfinished one might be that of Arses, who reigned at the longest two years, but is more likely that of Darius III, last of the Achaemenian line, who was overthrown by Alexander the Great. |
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The passion of the tourists to visit Khyber Pass is due to the myth attached to the great conquerors who passed there Achaemenians, Alexander the Great, then the Afghans and finally the founders of the Mughal dynasty. |
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Built in the early 4th century BC during the times of Alexander the Great, the Kyrenia is considered to be the best preserved wooden merchant ship ever found on the sea floor and the oldest Greek vessel ever discovered. |
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Indeed, Poliziano considered his achievements to be more meritorious than those of Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar. |
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In 327 BCE, Alexander the Great was rewarded by the defeated King Porus, not with gold or silver but with 30 pounds of steel. |
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And he's still interested in Alexander the Great. |
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This policy contrasts with that of Alexander the Great, who aimed to impose Greek throughout his empire as the official language. |
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Also, there was the propaganda value of an Eastern conquest that would emulate, in Roman fashion, those of Alexander the Great. |
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If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander the Great, and likely Alexander envied Hercules, who never existed. |
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Legendary accounts surround the life of Alexander the Great, many deriving from his own lifetime, probably encouraged by Alexander himself. |
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Teaching Alexander the Great gave Aristotle many opportunities and an abundance of supplies. |
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In the late 4th century BC, Alexander the Great conquered the region, putting it under Hellenistic Seleucid rule for over two centuries. |
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Navies next played a major role in the complicated wars of the successors of Alexander the Great. |
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Excavations were performed in the city by Greeks seeking the tomb of Alexander the Great without success. |
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Alexander the Great sent samples of dwarf apple trees to Aristotle's Lyceum. |
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Classical Greece entered the Hellenistic period with the rise of Macedon and the conquests of Alexander the Great. |
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Kandahar is a trading center dating from Alexander the Great. |
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Irish playwright Aubrey Thomas de Vere wrote Alexander the Great, a Dramatic Poem. |
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It reached its peak during the reign of his son, Alexander III, who, after his conquest of the Persian Empire, became known as Alexander the Great. |
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In 334 BC, the Macedonian Greek king Alexander the Great conquered the peninsula from the Achaemenid Persian Empire. |
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The Lion of Amphipolis, erected in 4th BC in honour of Laomedon of Mytilene, admiral of Alexander the Great. |
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In the Middle Ages, the Near East provided a contrast to the West, though it had been Hellenized since the time of Alexander the Great. |
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While traveling with an expedition under Alexander the Great, Pyrrhon saw in the fakirs of India an example of happiness flowing from indifference to circumstances. |
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Alexander the Great exploited this military foundation further during his conquests. |
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Alexander the Great conquered Egypt at an early stage of his conquests. |
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His speculation about what would have happened if Alexander the Great had marched against Rome represents the first known instance of alternate history. |
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After all, if Colin Farrell can ham it up as Alexander the Great, then no historical figure is safe from getting basted on the spitroast of ridicule. |
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The second covers the Trojan War to the death of Alexander the Great. |
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Alexander the Great attacked the Getae in BC 335 on the lower Danube, but by BC 300 they had formed a state founded on a military democracy, and began a period of conquest. |
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British historian Max Hastings says there is no question that as a military genius Napoleon ranks with Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar in greatness. |
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With collapse of Archaemenid Empire by Alexander the Great and occupancy of its territory, a changing phase was begun in system and shape of Urbanism in Iran. |
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Due to the conquests by Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea. |
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The empire that grew from Greek conquest, particularly by Alexander the Great, spurred the spread of Greek language, religion, science and philosophy throughout the colonies. |
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Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers. |
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Native labourers may have manufactured the flotilla of boats used by Alexander the Great to navigate across the Hydaspes and even the Indus, under Nearchos. |
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The Greek army led by Alexander the Great stayed in the Hindu Kush region of South Asia for several years and then later moved into the Indus valley region. |
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