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Battle of Gaugamela

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Gaugamela · Mesopotamia

Estimated casualties

50Ksingle estimate · no range published

Alexander's decisive victory over Darius III that effectively ended Persian rule and consolidated Macedonian dominance over the Near East.

Belligerents2

Macedon
Persia

ON THE MAPEmpire of Alexander the GreatAchaemenid Persian Empire

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Gaugamela
Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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