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Hydarnes II

550 BC - Today

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Hydarnes II (Old Persian: 𐎻𐎡𐎭𐎼𐎴, romanized: Vidṛna), also known as Hydarnes the Younger (by contrast with his father Hydarnes the Old) was a Persian commander of the Achaemenid Empire in the 5th century BC. He was the son of Hydarnes, satrap of the Persian empire and one of the seven conspirators against Gaumata. During the reign of Xerxes I, Hydarnes was one of the commanders for the Second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC. He was appointed as the leader of the 10,000-man contingent of "Immortals", while his brother Sisamnes commanded the levy of the Aryans. On the first day of the Battle of Thermopylae, Hydarnes led the Immortals against the phalanx of Spartans under Leonidas I, but an attempt to break through failed. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hydarnes II has received more than 82,632 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Hydarnes II is the 909th most popular military personnel (up from 985th in 2019).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hydarnes II ranks 909 out of 2,058Before him are Vasili Mitrokhin, Yevgeny Miller, Henry Allingham, Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma, Hans Loritz, and Gainas. After him are Hermann Ehrhardt, Rudolf Schmidt, Jacques François Dugommier, Dan Shomron, Karl Lennart Oesch, and Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 550 BC, Hydarnes II ranks 21Before him are Helü of Wu, Ariston of Sparta, Arsames, Histiaeus, Uppalavanna, and Rhodopis. After him are Khema, Pasenadi, Appius Claudius Crassus, Aristodemus of Cumae, King Jing of Zhou, and Alcetas I of Macedon.

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