Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern-day Turkey, the Middle East, and as far away as Afghanistan and Pakistan, Alexander routed Persian king Darius III, taking the empire for his own.

It found that during the Achaemenid Persian empire, between 559 and 330 BCE ... A 1467 reconstruction of Ptolemy's Map VI from "Cosmographia" shows Sinus Persicus (Persian Gulf) and Sinus Arabicus ...

only later—by conquering an empire of two million square miles, stretching from modern Albania to eastern Pakistan, in less than a decade. He swept across Asia beginning in 334 B.C., leading a ...

After the murder of his father, Philip of Macedon, Alexander led the armies of Macedonia in a conquest of Greece, Egypt, the Persian Empire ... Next are all the modern countries that were once ...

For a little over 200 years, the First Persian Empire ruled over a vast expanse ... it stretched from its base in Persia - roughly analogous to modern-day Iran, all the way to India in the East ...

According to Guinness World Records, which seems as good an authority as any, the answer is the Achaemenid Empire in 480 B.C. Also known as the Persian Empire, it's estimated that 44% of the world ...

"We first hear of the Persian people from Assyrian sources ... Parts of Persepolis, the ancient capital of the Achaemenid Empire, which is near modern-day Shiraz, Iran, are protected today ...