For three days they held out between two narrow cliff faces to prevent the use of Xerxes ' vast cavalry and infantry force, before being outflanked on the third day via a hidden goat path named the Anopaea Pass.

The third Persian campaign, under Xerxes I of Persia ten years later ( 480 BC ), followed the pattern of the first in marching the army via the Hellespont while the fleet paralleled them offshore.

It was rich in treasures, but was destroyed by the Persians in the invasion of Xerxes in 480 BCE, and a second time by the Boeotians and remained in a ruined state. It was rebuilt by Hadrian.

The Aegean Sea was a natural frontier for a state based in Babylonia, as Xerxes discovered long ago.

After the battle, Thebes was the final Boeotian state to side with the Persians, and in doing so they denounced both Plataea and Thespiae to Xerxes I as the only Boeotian states to side with the Greeks.

The name Ahasuerus is equivalent to Xerxes, both deriving from the Persian Khshayārsha, thus Ahasuerus is usually identified as Xerxes I ( 486-465 BCE ), though Ahasuerus is identified as Artaxerxes in the later Greek version of Esther ( as well as by Josephus, the Jewish commentary Esther Rabbah, the Ethiopic translation and the Christian theologian Bar-Hebraeus who identified him more precisely as Artaxerxes II ).

Those arguing in favour of an historical reading of Esther, most commonly identify Ahasuerus with Artaxerxes II ( ruled 405 – 359 BCE ) although in the past it was often assumed that he was Xerxes I ( ruled 486 – 465 BCE ).

Most notably, it may refer to Xerxes I of Persia ( reigned 485 – 465 BCE ).

* Xerxes II of Persia, reigned 424 BCE

* Xerxes of Armenia, Armenian king, assassinated around 212 BCE

* Aspamistres or Mithridates ( 5th century BCE ): bodyguard of Xerxes I of Persia, and ( with Artabanus ) his murderer.

The temple to Nabu at Borsippa was destroyed in 484 BCE during the suppression of a revolt against the Achaemenid king Xerxes.

460 BCE ), son of Xerxes I of Persia

According to the Book of Esther, in the Tanakh, Haman was an Agagite noble and vizier of the empire under Persian King Ahasuerus, generally identified as Xerxes the Great ( son of Darius the Great ) in 6th century BCE.

Herodotus attests that the Gandarian mercenaries ( Gandharans / Kambojans ) from the twentieth strapy of the Achaemenids were recruited in the army of emperor Xerxes I ( 486-465 BCE ) which he led against the Hellas.

The founder of the city was Sames, a Satrap of Commagene who made it his capital.

The state of Commagene had a wide range of cultures which left its leader from 62 BC-38 BC Antiochus I to carry on a peculiar dynastic religious program, in which it included not only Greek and Persian deities but Antiochus and his family as well.

# Artavasdes I, ( b. 65 BCE-d. 20 BCE ), ruled from 56 BCE to 31 BCE, a son-in-law of Antiochus I Theos of Commagene.

In four opening chapters reminiscent of Macaulay's famous third chapter, Trevelyan surveys the state of England at the opening of the eighteenth century.

In the third column is given the optimal policy for stage R, and in the fourth, the resulting state of the stream when this policy is used.

The third column gives the optimal policy, but we must wait to see the outcome of stage R and enter the preceding section of the table at this state.

In the terms of the truce, Lithuania had to surrender about a third of its territory to the nascent expansionist Russian state.

Illegal and punishable crime is the violation of any rule of administrative, fiscal or criminal liability on the part of agents of the state or practice of any wrongdoing and notoriously harmful to self or against third parties, provided for in criminal law, since they practiced with guilt ( the first act that causes injury criminal actions or omissions to produce adequate evidence also illegal ).

In fact, less than a third of China's history was the country under the rule of a single state.

The rapid adoption of the compound crank can be traced in the works of the Anonymous of the Hussite Wars, an unknown German engineer writing on the state of the military technology of his day: first, the connecting-rod, applied to cranks, reappeared, second, double compound cranks also began to be equipped with connecting-rods and third, the flywheel was employed for these cranks to get them over the ' dead-spot '.

In the northern third of the state are found Northeastern coastal forests and mixed oak forests typical of the northeastern United States.

After producing the third volume of his series in 1976, he expressed such frustration with the nascent state of the then newly-developed electronic publishing tools ( especially those that provided input to phototypesetters ) that he took time out to work on typesetting and created the TeX and METAFONT tools.

* 1787 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U. S. Constitution.

A weaker state also might ask for the protection of a stronger neighbour against a warlike third state.

The third type is " found in Herbert Spencer's early predictions, and in that of some of his disciples such as Donisthorpe, foreseeing the redundancy of the state in the source of social evolution.

Furthermore, imports into the EC are possible from third countries if the irradiation facility had been inspected and licensed by the EC and the treatment is legal within the EC or some Member state.

Rousseau held that this third savage stage of human societal development was an optimum, between the extreme of the state of brute animals and animal-like " ape-men " on the one hand, and the extreme of decadent civilized life on the other.

It has the third largest library within the state of West Bengal.

India has control of about half the area of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, while Pakistan controls a third of the region, the Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir.

It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron ( and is slightly smaller than the U. S. state of West Virginia ).

The independent state at Salerno inspired the gastalds of Capua to move towards independence and, by the end of the century, they were styling themselves " princes " and there was a third Lombard state.

A similar change between the earlier odes of Horace, in which he declares his epicurean indifference to affairs of state, and the great national odes of the third book has been ascribed by some to the same guidance.

# Valide Sultan Emine Hatun, daughter of Suleyman Bey, ruler of Dulkadirids, third consort, which marriage served as an alliance between the Ottoman's and this buffer state, mother of Murad II

The southern third of the state, where the Las Vegas area is situated, is within the Mojave Desert.

It is also the third wealthiest U. S. state by 2011 median household income.

Accordingly, in March 1990 Gorbachev was elected for the third time in eighteen months to a position of Soviet head of state.