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    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...
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    given to the Medes and the Persians. That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean [Babylonian] king, was killed. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom […]...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Ahasuerus (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...
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    Astyages (category Wikipedia 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...
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    Darius I (Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Dārayavaʰuš; Greek: Δαρεῖος Dareios; c. 550 – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was a Persian ruler who...
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  • 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...
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    The Medes (/miːdz/; Old Persian: 𐎶𐎠𐎭 Māda-; Akkadian: mat Mādāya, mat Mātāya; Ancient Greek: Μῆδοι Mēdoi; Latin: Medi) were an ancient Iranian people...
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