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Alexander III of Macedon, leading some thirty …

Years: 334BCE - 334BCE
April

Alexander III of Macedon, leading some thirty thousand infantry and five thousand cavalry, invades Asia Minor in 334 in fulfillment of his father’s dream of punishing Persia for the Greco-Persian Wars and for its dominance thereafter of the Balkan Peninsula.

As soon as Alexander crosses the Hellespont, he casts his spear into Asian soil and openly declares that he lays claim to all Asia, which is at this time a fluid geographical concept.

In a romantic gesture inspired by Homer, he visits Troy, paying due religious honor to the tombs of the heroes Achilles and Ajax.

He now marches on Phrygia, where Darius III, the Achaemenid king of Persia, waits with an army.

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The Near and Middle East (-334 - -334)
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