Xerxes Canal The Xerxes Canal (Greek: Διώρυγα του Ξέρξη) was a navigable canal through the base of the Mount Athos peninsula in Chalkidiki, northern Greece...
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Xerxes I (c. 518 – August 465 BC), commonly known as Xerxes the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire...
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Bubares (category Xerxes I)
around 483 BC, Xerxes I commissioned Bubares together with Artachaies to lead the construction of what is now known as the Xerxes Canal through the isthmus...
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wide. In the 5th century BC, Achaemenid king Xerxes I of Persia ordered the construction of the Xerxes Canal through the base of Mount Athos peninsula,...
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Greece (part of the Greco-Persian Wars) upon the order of Xerxes I of Persia for the purpose of Xerxes' army to traverse the Hellespont (the present-day Dardanelles)...
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Second Persian invasion of Greece (category Xerxes I)
of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece. The invasion was a direct,...
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Greco-Persian Wars of the late fifth century BC. Phoenicians under Xerxes I built the Xerxes Canal and the pontoon bridges that allowed his forces to cross into...
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needed] The peninsula was on the invasion route of Xerxes I, who spent three years excavating the Xerxes Canal across the isthmus to allow the passage of his...
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(Ormylia) Stageira Spartolus Thyssus Torone Treasury of the Acanthians Xerxes Canal In June 2022, archaeologists announced the discovery of a poorly preserved...
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of the Xerxes Canal across the peninsula at the base of Mount Athos, and his direct role in overseeing its construction. He died while Xerxes I was with...
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