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Amaziah in Wikipedia

Amaziah or Amasias (in the Douay-Rheims) (Hebrew: אֲמַצְיָה‎, "strengthened by God"; Latin: Amasias) may refer to: 1. Amaziah of Judah, the king of Judah 2. A Levite, son of Hilkiah, of the descendants of Ethan the Merarite (1 Chronicles 6:45) 3. A priest of the golden calves at Bethel (Amos 7:10-17) 4. The father of Joshah, one of the leaders...

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Amos in Wikipedia

Amos may refer to: amos may refer to a bumbai or an Indian prince or Persian prince....

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Antiochus Vii Sidetes in Wikipedia

Antiochus VII Euergetes, nicknamed Sidetes (from Side), ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, reigned from 138 to 129 BC. He was the last Seleucid king of any stature. He was one of the sons of Demetrius I Soter, the brother of Demetrius II Nicator and his mother may have been Laodice V. Antiochus was elevated after Demetrius' capture by the P...

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Argishti II in Wikipedia

Argishti II was king of the Urartian empire from 714 to 680 BC. He succeeded his father, King Rusa I. During the Urartu-Assyria War, Argishti was responsible for orchestrating major Urartuan counter-offensives against the invading Assyrians. His forces drove the Assyrians back across the pre-war border and deep into the Assyrian heartlands, reconqu...

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Artatama in Wikipedia

Artatama may refer to: * Artatama I a fifteenth century BC king of Mitanni * Artatama II an usurper to the throne of Tushratta of Mitanni...

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Amel-Marduk in Wikipedia

Amel-Marduk (d. 560 BC), was the son and successor of Nebuchadrezzar, , king of Babylon. He reigned only two years (562 - 560 BC). According to the Biblical Book of Kings, he pardoned and released Jehoiachin, king of Judah, who had been a prisoner in Babylon for thirty-seven years. (2 Kings 25:27) Allegedly because Amel-Marduk tried to modify his f...

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Amytis in Wikipedia

Amytis (Greek Ámitys, Old Persian *Umati) [1] was a Persian princess, daughter of king Xerxes I and queen Amestris, and sister of king Artaxerxes I. She was given in marriage to the nobleman Megabyzus. Amytis and her mother are portrayed in Ctesias' account as the most powerful women during Artaxerxes' reign. Near 445 BC, her husband Megabyzus sta...

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Arik-Den-Ili in Wikipedia

Arik-den-ili (1319 BC-1308 BC or 1307 BC – 1296 BC) was an Assyrian king Kings of Assyria. As his father, Enlil-nirari, he had to fight against Babylon,in this case against the king Nazi-Marutash, to delimit the kingdom boundaries. That dispute could not be solved until his son's (Adad-nirari I) kingdom with the Assyrian victory....

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Apama in Wikipedia

Apama, sometimes known as Apama I or Apame I [1] (Ancient Greek: Ἀπάμα Apáma) was the wife of the first ruler of the Seleucid Empire, Seleucus I Nicator. They married at Susa in 324 BC. According to ancient sources, Apama was the daughter of the Sogdian baron Spitamenes (Arr. VII, 4, 6, from Ptolemy I). Apama and Seleucus had two daughters, Apama ...

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Artaxerxes I in Wikipedia

Artaxerxes I (Latin; Greek Ἀρταξέρξης; Persian اردشیر یکم (Ardeshir) corruption of Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐎭𐎧𐎨𐏁𐎨[1] Artaxšacā, "whose reign is through arta (truth)"; the name has nothing to do with Xerxes)[2] was king of the Persian Empire from 465 BC to 424 BC. He was the son of Xerxes I of Persia and ...

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