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3 unusual facts about Cambyses I


580 BC

Cambyses I succeeds his father Cyrus I as king of Anshan and head of the Achaemenid Dynasty.

Battle of the Persian Border

It was the first battle Cambyses I had fought in, and the first which he had fought with his son, Cyrus the Great.

Cambyses I

James Hope Moulton regards Spiegel's suggestions as the best of other etymological explanations of these two names.



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