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Alexander the Great
King of Macedon · 356–323 BCE
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Year 356 BCE
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Pella · 356 BCE
Born at Pella
Born to King Philip II of Macedon and Olympias of Epirus in the Macedonian capital.
356 BCE · bornStop 1 / 22323 BCE · died
About Alexander the Great
Tutored by Aristotle, crowned at 20, dead at 32. In eleven years he marched 22,000 km from Macedon to the Indus, smashed the Persian Empire, founded twenty cities named Alexandria, and fused Greek and Asian culture into the Hellenistic world.
Achievements
- Defeated Darius III three times — Granicus, Issus, Gaugamela
- Founded Alexandria in Egypt — became the intellectual capital of antiquity
- Reached the Indus and turned back only because his army refused to go further
- Never lost a battle
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