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xerxes i

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Xerx⋅es I

  [zurk-seez]
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–noun
519?–465 b.c., king of Persia 486?–465 (son of Darius I).
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Xer·xes I   (zûrk'sēz)   
King of Persia (486-465) who organized a vast army that defeated the Greeks at Thermopylae and destroyed Athens (480). After the defeat of his navy at Salamis (480) and of his army at Plataea (479), he retreated to Persia, where he was later assassinated.
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