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- Title
Dareios’un İskit Seferi: Nedeni, Tarihi ve Süreci Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme.
- Authors
KAYA, Mehmet Ali; YAZGI, Aytun
- Abstract
When the Great Persian King Dareios I ascended the throne (522 B.C.), all of the Near East civilizations were included within the borders of the Persian empire by the previous Persian kings. Dareios spent the first years of his rule in suppressing the revolts that took place within the territory of the empire. However, there was not yet Persian dominion in Europe. He gathered a great army from the vast imperial territory. Thracian tribes living in the lands on the route to Scythia were subjugated sometimes through diplomacy and sometimes by force. The Scythian campaign of Darius become the first military expedition which took Persian dominion into Europe. Darius, with his army crossed over to Europe at the Bosphorus Straits using a pontoon bridge. He entered the Scythian country by crossing the Istros River over another the pontoon bridge built by the Hellens under the rule of the tyrants, which ruled the Ionian, Aiolis and Hellespontine coasts. He had no military success in the Scythian country, where he stayed for two months, and he had to return, without obtaining any success and he had to leave Scythian territory returning to Asia. However, this campaign of Darius was problematic from many perspectives, including its aim, history, success, and results. The aim of this paper is to present an evaluation of this expedition, its aims and its troubles.
- Subjects
MIDDLE East; PONTOONS; STRAITS; DICTATORS; TRIBES; BRITISH colonies
- Publication
CEDRUS, 2021, p131
- ISSN
2147-8058
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13113/CEDRUS.202107