Battle of Gaugamela
battle · 331 BC
Battle of Gaugamela, a battle recorded 331 BC: its site mapped, cited to 2 sources, on an interactive historical map you can move through time.
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At a glance
- Kind
- battle
- Date
- 1 October 331 BC
- War
- Wars of Alexander the Great
- Side 1
- Macedon and the League of Corinth — led by Alexander the Great
- Side 2
- Achaemenid Empire — led by Darius III
- Result
- Macedonian victory; the end of the Achaemenid Empire
- Campaign
- Alexander the Great's campaigns
Recorded boundaries
| Period | Control | Confidence | Evidence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 331 BC | — | medium confidence | no observation date recorded | — |
Each row is a snapshot the source recorded, not a continuous history. The period between two observations is an inference this atlas shows rather than hides.
Sources
- Arrian; translated by P. A. Brunt, Anabasis of Alexander, (1976)
- Tony Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century, (2007)