Biography about Alexander Macedonian

It is not for nothing that from ancient times, until today, the nickname "great" has firmly entrenched in him. Alexander Magnus was born on July 21 BC in the family of the Macedonian Tsar Philip II in Pelle capital of Macedonia. Father independently engaged in the military training of the boy. In the year BC. Even in childhood, Alexander was different from peers.

He was indifferent to bodily joys, but Alexander's ambition was endlessly. At the summer, Alexander remained for the king in Macedonia, when Philip besieged Byzantium, and the rules harshly, mercilessly suppressing the uprising of the Thracian tribe of honey. Upon joining the Macedonian throne, Alexander first dealt with the alleged participants in the conspiracy against his father and, according to the Macedonian tradition, with possible applicants for the throne.

He also brought to know the Macedonian people to his side with the abolition of taxes. At the very beginning of his reign, in the year BC, the young tsar made a campaign against the northwestern neighboring tribes of the Illyrians, Triballs, the Getas. He forced his neighbors to admit the rule of Macedonia. In the same year, the cities of Central Greece tried to rebel against Macedonia, but Alexander managed to pacify the rebels.

In the spring of next year, the Greek-Macedonian army under the command of Alexander crossed Malaya Asia and unleashed the war with Persia. On the river Granin, the Macedonians defeated the Persian army. After that, the army of the young king quickly occupied Small Asia. In the year BC, the Persian king Darius III made an attempt to defeat the Greek-Macedonian troops under Isse.

However, despite the huge numerical advantage of the Persian, were defeated. Alexander managed to capture all the ports of the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea. In the next two years, the army under the command of Alexander took Egypt. The Persians suffered another defeat, Darius III fled and was soon killed. A year later, he advanced even more east and occupied the central part of the Iranian highlander, and then Central Asia.

In order to strengthen his power in the conquered territories, Alexander built fortresses with strong garrisons, who received the names - Alexandria. In the spring of the year BC, a talented commander made a conquest in the Western India Penjab. However, the army of Alexander, exhausted by a long campaign, demanded a return home. In the winter of the year BC, Alexander the Great stopped in Babylon, which he made the capital of his huge empire.

The commander planned to soon move against the Arabic tribes of the Arabian Peninsula.

Shortly before this campaign, he suddenly fell ill. After 10 days of brutal fever on June 13 BC, Alexander the Great died in Babylon at the age of 32. Persons of the day of March 17: - Nikolai Zhukovsky Russian scientist in the field of mechanics, the founder of aerodynamics as science.