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Alexander the Great 1200km 820miles Babylon 15 Malavas 14 Hydaspes 13 Cophen 12 Sogdian Rock 11 Persian Gate 10 Uxians 9 Gaugamela 8 Alexandria 7 Gaza...

ended on the eastern end of India. Greeks of Alexander's day knew nothing of China, or any other lands east of Bactria. The Siege of the Sogdian Rock, a fortress...

his conquests. Two of his most impressive achievements in siegecraft took place in the Siege of Tyre and the Siege of the Sogdian Rock. His engineers built...

conquest of Transoxiana. The Sogdian city-states, although never politically united, were centered on the city of Samarkand. Sogdian, an Eastern Iranian language...

daughter of the Sogdian nobleman Oxyartes of Bactria, out of love; and the Persian princesses Stateira and Parysatis, the former a daughter of Darius III...

Wars of Alexander the Great Siege of the Sogdian Rock (327 BC) – Wars of Alexander the Great Siege of Neapolis (c. 327 BC) – Samnite Wars Siege of Massaga...

example in the murder of Billie-Jo Jenkins. Other uses of tent pegs are as improvised climbing pitons, for example in the siege of the Sogdian Rock and Jean-Christophe...

Alexander took as his wife a Sogdian woman of Bactria, Roxana, after the siege of the Sogdian Rock, in order to placate the rebelling populace. Diplomacy...

Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Roman battles Sherman Storytelling:...

Movement 335–323 BCE Wars of Alexander the Great 327 BCE Siege of the Sogdian Rock 250 BCE Independence 230 BCE Overthrow of Diodotus II 210 BCE Seleucid...

of Alexander the Great Siege of the Sogdian Rock – 327 BC – Wars of Alexander the Great Day of Thirst – 724 – Muslim conquest of Transoxiana Siege of...

"Strong", from hypothetical Sogdian *Heβtalīt, plural of *Heβtalak, or from postulated Middle Persian *haft āl "the Seven Al". The Hephthalites called themselves...

Battle of the Granicus, from the Loeb edition. Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, (section 4.18.4–19.6) Archived 2016-05-04 at the Wayback Machine, Sogdian Rock, translated...

or simply crossed, including the most important battles/sieges and the cities founded (Alexandrias). The events of the expedition are shown in chronological...

nobility. He restored the Achaemenid military organizations, retained the Parthian cavalry model, and employed new types of armour and siege warfare techniques...

secretary for the Ministry of Rites. He is likely either of Xianbei descent, through the Kumo Xi tribe and/or of Sogdian descent, as the surname Mi (米)...

the Turks gaining the Sogdian merchant cities and their control of the Silk Road. Around 567–576 the Turks took the area between the Caspian and Black...

into the Aetolian League 327 Under the command of Alexander the Great the forces of the Hellenic League captures the fortress of the Sogdian Rock. Sogdiana...

summertime raids against Sogdian villages. The historian H. A. R. Gibb attributed the Arab military regression in Transoxiana to the void in leadership and...

previous injury to his neck during the Siege of Cyropolis. Other popular theories contend that Alexander either died of malaria or was poisoned. Other retrodiagnoses...