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Takhmaspâda |
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| Takhmaspâda: Median
general in Persian service, sent by king Darius
I the Great against Tritantaechmes,
a Sagartian
who had continued the rebellion of the Median king Phraortes.
Takhmaspâda
defeated and arrested his opponent in the Summer of 521 BC.
Darius tells the story in the Behistun inscription: King Darius says: A man named Tritantaechmes, a Sagartian, revolted from me, saying to his people: 'I am king in Sagartia, of the family of Cyaxares.' |
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