Battle of the Granicus

When

May 334 BCE

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

40.23° N, 27.24° E

Description

334 BCE battle between Macedonians and Persians

Battle fought between Alexander the Great and the Achaemenids

The Battle of the Granicus in May 334 BC was the first of three major battles fought between Alexander the Great of Macedon and the Persian Achaemenid Empire. The battle took place on the road from Abydus to Dascylium, at the crossing of the Granicus in the Troad region, which is now called the Biga River in Turkey.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Alexander wins a major victory against the Persians commanded by the Greek mercenary Memnon of Rhodes, in the Battle of the Granicus near the Sea of Marmara”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Makedonya başkenti Pella'dan ordusuyla yola çıkan İskender, Çanakkale üzerinden Anadolu'ya geçti”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Alexander der Große beginnt den Persienfeldzug mit 5000 Reitern und 30.000 Mann Fußvolk und schlägt die Perser in der Schlacht am Granikos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Alexandre traverse l’Hellespont, débarque en Troade où il bat les troupes de Darius III à la bataille du Granique (mai ou juin)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Победа над персами во главе с Ресаком и Скифридатом при Гранике”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En la primavera de este año Alejandro Magno cruzó los Dardanelos con un ejército de unos 35.000 hombres para comenzar la campaña contra los persas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “معركة الغرانيكوس”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “馬其頓人亞歷山大三世的马其顿大軍開始遠征波斯，在格拉尼库斯河战役中擊敗波斯大流士三世，波斯小亚细亚地区成為馬其頓帝國的一部分，开启了波斯帝国走向灭亡的进程。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2年前の紀元前336年に王位を継ぎ、紀元前335年にトラキアを討った後反乱を起こしたテーバイを消滅させてギリシアを再統一したマケドニア王国国王アレクサンドロス3世が、父の遺志をついでペルシア東征に遠征を開始。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page