Ruler · 380 – 330 BCE

Darius III

Lived 380 – 330 BCE; monarch. King of Kings of Achaemenid Empire, 336 BCE – 330 BCE; also in the line of Persian Empire, Ancient Egypt and Thirty-first Dynasty of Egypt.

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Lived: 380 BCE – 330 BCE; 50 years
In office: 6 years; one reign
Lines: 4; states
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

King of Kings

Achaemenid Empire · the 11th of 11 dated reigns · 559 BCE – 330 BCE

7 before

Sogdianus424 BCE – 423 BCE

Darius II423 BCE – …

Arses338 BCE – 336 BCE

Darius III336 BCE – 330 BCE

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 336 BCE – 330 BCE · 6 years · came to it aged 44

Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 330 BCE, the year they died

Also in the line of Persian Empire (10th of 51, read from the line of Achaemenid Empire), Ancient Egypt (81st of 87) and Thirty-first Dynasty of Egypt (2nd of 2).

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