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Xerxes the Great
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Xerxes I.
Xerxes I ( ; from Old IranianXšayār̥šā, commonly known as Xerxes the Great; c. 518 BC – 465 BC) was a Persian ruler who reigned as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 486 BC until his assassination in 465 BC. He was the son of Darius the Great and Atossa.