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BESSUS , See also:- SATRAP [Pers. Khshatrapavan, i.e." protector (superintendent) of the country (or district)," Heb. sakhshadrapan, Gr. taerpan-ris (insc. of Miletus, Sitzungsber. Berl. Ak. 1900, 112), E% u3pa7eixav (insc. of Mylasa, Dittenberger, Sylloge, 95), ital. p6. rr
satrap of See also:Bactria and See also:Sogdiana under See also:Darius III. In the See also:battle of Gaugamela (1st of See also:October 331) he commanded the troops of his satrapy. When See also:Alexander pursued the See also:Persian See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king on his See also:flight to the See also:East (summer 330), Bessus with some of the other conspirators deposed Darius and shortly afterwards killed him. He then tried to organize a See also:national resistance against the Macedonian conqueror in the eastern provinces, proclaimed himself king and adopted the name See also:Artaxerxes. But he was taken prisoner by treachery in the summer of 329. Alexander sent him to See also:Ecbatana, where he was condemned to See also:death. Before his See also:execution his See also:nose and ears were cut off, according to the Persian See also:custom; we learn from the See also:Behistun inscription that Darius I. punished the usurpers in the same way.
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