Xerxes I

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519?–465 b.c., king of Persia 486?–465 (son of Darius I).

Xerxes I

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?519–465 _bc , king of Persia (485–465), who led a vast army against Greece. His forces were victorious at Thermopylae but his fleet was defeated at Salamis (480) and his army at Plataea (479)

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The word “hamantaschen,” a Yiddish term, is a reminder of the Jewish peoples’ deliverance from their enemy Haman, an official under the Persian King Ahasuerus, also known as Xerxes I, in the fifth century B.C.

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Contemporaries praised the masterful use of rapid communication by Persian King Xerxes I, who ruled from...

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Murder of Xerxes I, by Artabanus, captain of his guard; accession of Artaxerxes I to the Persian throne.

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