Conquests of Darius I

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Conquests by Achaemenid ruler Darius I.

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January 512 BC: Darius the Great, the ruler of the Achaemenid Empire from 521-486 BC, led military operations in 513 BC that resulted in the subjugation of the Paeonians in their territory of Paeonia.

January 511 BC: Around 512 BC Chios was conquered by the expansion of the Persian Empire.

January 510 BC: Persian conquest of Thracia.

January 511 BC: Skepsis was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Neandreia was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Ophryneion was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 499 BC: By the 5th century BC the Kings of Persia were either ruling over or had subordinated territories encompassing not just all of the Persian Plateau and all of the territories formerly held by the Assyrian Empire (Mesopotamia, the Levant, Cyprus and Egypt), but beyond this all of Anatolia and Armenia, as well as the Southern Caucasus and parts of the North Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, all of Bulgaria, Paeonia, Thrace and Macedonia to the north and west, most of the Black Sea coastal regions, parts of Central Asia as far as the Aral Sea, the Oxus and Jaxartes to the north and north-east, the Hindu Kush and the western Indus basin (corresponding to modern Afghanistan and Pakistan) to the far east, parts of northern Arabia to the south, and parts of northern Libya to the south-west, and parts of Oman, China, and the UAE.

January 511 BC: Dardanos was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 513 BC: Abydos was occupied by the Persian Empire in 514 BC.

January 512 BC: Darius the Great invaded European Scythia in 513 BC.

January 512 BC: Around 513 BC, an army of the mighty Persian dynasty of the Achaemenids crossed the Bosphorus. King Darius I' goal was a punitive expedition against the Scythians at the northern shores of the Black Sea. Most eastern Thracian tribes submitted peacefully, except of the Getai, who were defeated.

January 512 BC: The city of Byzantion was taken by the Persian Empire at the time of the Scythian campaign (513 BC) of King Darius I.

January 511 BC: In 512 BC Otanes, the Persian satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia, captured the city of Antandros while subduing north-west Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Kolonai (Troas) was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Larisa (Troas) was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Rhoiteion was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Arisbe was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Assos was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Astyra was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Astyra Troika was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Birytis was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Gargara was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Gentinos was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Gergis was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Ilion was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Kebren was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Lamponeia was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Palaiperkote was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Perkote was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Sigeion was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 511 BC: Kokylion was occupied by the Achaemenid Empire during the military campaigns of Darius I in Asia Minor.

January 510 BC: In 511 or 512 BC the island of Imbros was captured by the Persian general Otanes.

January 510 BC: Lemnos was conquered by Otanes, a general of Darius Hystaspis.

January 507 BC: The Persians occupied Samothrace in 508 BC.

January 499 BC: Northern border of the 5th Satrapy of the Persian Empire at the time of Herodotus.

January 498 BC: The island of Nisyros was captured by the Persians.

1. Achaemenid invasion of the Indus Valley

Were a series of military campaigns by the Achaemenid rulers in the Indus valley.

2. Scythian campaign of Darius I

The Scythian campaign of Darius I was a military expedition into parts of European Scythia by Darius I, the king of the Achaemenid Empire, in 513 BC.

January 512 BC: The Scythian campaign of Darius I was a military expedition into parts of European Scythia by Darius I, the king of the Achaemenid Empire, in 513 BC.