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  • Thumbnail for Darius the MedeDarius the Mede Darius the Mede is mentioned in the Book of Daniel as King of Babylon between Belshazzar and Cyrus the Great, but he is not known to secular history and... 19 KB (2,227 words) - 14:27, 7 December 2024
  • image layout frameless Darius Darius (praetorian prefect), Praetorian prefect of the East in 436 to 437 AD Darius I of Media Atropatene Darius II of Persis Darius the Mede Darius of... 1 KB (218 words) - 11:15, 13 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Daniel in the lions' denDaniel in the lions' den Daniel is raised to high office by his royal master Darius the Mede. Daniel's jealous rivals trick Darius into issuing a decree that for thirty days no prayers... 14 KB (1,514 words) - 14:12, 23 September 2024
  • image layout frameless Gobryas (general) (category Military leaders of the Achaemenid Empire) who helped Cyrus II in the conquering of Babylon in 539 BCE. Old Testament scholar Robert Dick Wilson argued that Darius the Mede might be identified as... 2 KB (133 words) - 05:02, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Belshazzar's feastBelshazzar's feast (redirect from The writing on the wall) given to the Medes and the Persians. That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom ... 17 KB (2,054 words) - 19:21, 3 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for AstyagesAstyages (category Misplaced Pages articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference) to the original Douay-Rheims Bible, Darius the Mede is another name for Astyages. The contemporary Chronicle of Nabonidus refers to the mutiny on the battlefield... 10 KB (1,074 words) - 16:27, 11 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for AhasuerusAhasuerus (category Darius the Mede) view Darius the Mede as a literary fiction, or possibly a conflation of Darius the Great with prophecies about the Medes. In some versions of the deuterocanonical... 17 KB (1,958 words) - 16:47, 11 December 2024
  • image layout frameless Donald Wiseman (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire) identification of Darius the Mede in the Book of Daniel with Cyrus the Great. Daniel 6:28 says "So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign... 13 KB (1,463 words) - 05:41, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Darius the GreatDarius the Great Darius I (Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎒𐏁 DārayavaΚ°uΕ‘; c. 550 – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid... 64 KB (7,151 words) - 01:04, 10 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for MedesMedes The Medes were an ancient Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around... 70 KB (9,140 words) - 09:11, 2 January 2025
  • image layout frameless Cyaxares II (category Darius the Mede) of the Medes whose reign is described by the Greek historian Xenophon. Some theories have equated this figure with the "Darius the Mede" named in the Book... 32 KB (4,725 words) - 12:06, 1 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Book of DanielBook of Daniel (redirect from The Book of Daniel) conqueror of Babylon, 539 BC. Darius the Mede: No such person is known to history (see Levine, 2010, p. 1245, footnote 31). "Darius" is in any case a Persian... 63 KB (7,402 words) - 07:36, 24 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for CyaxaresCyaxares (redirect from Cyaxares the Great) Cyaxares was the third king of the Medes. He ascended to the throne in 625 BCE, after his father Phraortes lost his life in a battle against the Assyrians... 24 KB (2,467 words) - 05:46, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for DeiocesDeioces (section Foundation of the Median kingdom) Deioces to become the capital of the Median kingdom. What is known from the Assyrian texts is that from the 9th to 7th century BC, the Medes had not been able... 17 KB (2,126 words) - 20:11, 3 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Darius (given name)Darius (given name) prince Darius Painter, Italian vase painter Darius of Pontus, Persian monarch Darius the Magnificent (1615-1659), Mughal prince Darius the Mede, King of... 16 KB (1,740 words) - 23:51, 27 November 2024
  • image layout frameless Prophecy of Seventy Weeks (category Darius the Mede) Darius son of Ahasuerus, by birth a Mede" (Daniel 9:1), later referred to in the Book of Daniel as "Darius the Mede" (e.g. Daniel 11:1); however, no such... 46 KB (5,323 words) - 20:13, 27 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Median kingdomMedian kingdom (category Medes) called Darius the Mede, who supposedly conquered Babylon, but this figure is unknown in other historical sources. It is highly probable that the author... 117 KB (15,575 words) - 22:44, 1 January 2025
  • image layout frameless 601 BC date) Darius the Mede, sometimes identified as Gobryas or Cyaxeres II (Biblical date) Viscount Xuan of Zhao E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient... 1 KB (126 words) - 20:05, 16 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for BelshazzarBelshazzar (category Misplaced Pages articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) to the Medes and Persians. Belshazzar is killed that night, and Darius the Mede takes the kingdom. The broad consensus among scholars is that the Book... 32 KB (3,971 words) - 02:03, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cyrus the Great in the BibleCyrus the Great in the Bible the Edict of Cyrus Darius the Mede, a king of Babylon in the biblical account Cyrus the Great in the Quran, exploration of potential mentions in the Islamic... 24 KB (3,445 words) - 16:03, 21 November 2024
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