Dārayavauš

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Dārayavauš is the Old Persian name of Darius I, the powerful Achaemenid king who ruled the Persian Empire at its territorial height in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BCE.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Dārayava(h)uš 1
Dārayavaush 1
Dārayavauš canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (32)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Achaemenid king
Old Persian personal name
historical figure
associatedCentury 5th century BCE
6th century BCE
associatedDynasty Achaemenid Empire
associatedRegion Persian Empire
linked to: Achaemenid Empire
associatedTitle King of Kings
associatedWithPeriod c. 522–486 BCE
associatedWithReligion Zoroastrian tradition (Achaemenid royal ideology)
linked to: Zoroastrianism
attestedIn Behistun Inscription
category Old Iranian names
Royal names in the Achaemenid Empire
correspondsToAkkadianForm Dārayamūš
correspondsToElamiteForm Dar-ya-ma-u-iš (attested variant)
correspondsToGreekName Δαρεῖος (Dareios)
linked to: Darius I of Persia
hasVariantSpelling Darayavahush
linked to: Darius

Dārayavaush
linked to: Dārayavauš
heldBy Darius I, third king of the Achaemenid Empire
linked to: Darius I of Persia
language Old Persian
latinizedAs Darius
linkedPerson Cyrus the Great (predecessor’s family line)
Hystaspes (father of Darius I)
linked to: Hystaspes

Xerxes I (successor and son of Darius I)
linked to: Xerxes I
meaning “he who holds firm the good” (traditional etymology)
nameOf Darius I
linked to: Darius I of Persia
refersTo Darius I, son of Hystaspes
linked to: Darius I of Persia
reignOf Darius I of Persia
script Old Persian cuneiform
transliteratedAs Dārayava(h)uš
linked to: Dārayavauš
usedBy Darius I to refer to himself in royal inscriptions
usedInContext royal inscriptions and monumental texts

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Darius I of Persia nativeName Dārayavauš
Dārayavauš transliteratedAs Dārayava(h)uš
linked to: Dārayavauš
Dārayavauš hasVariantSpelling Dārayavaush
linked to: Dārayavauš