Editing 329 BC

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Year '''329 BCE''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Privernas and Decianus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 425 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 329 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Macedonian Empire ====
* From [[Farah, Afghanistan|Phrada]], [[Alexander the Great]] presses on up the valley of the [[Helmand River]], through [[Arachosia]], and over the mountains past the site of modern [[Kabul]] into the country of the [[Paropamisade]], where he founds [[Alexandria by the Caucasus]].
* In [[Bactria]], [[Bessus]] raises a national revolt in the eastern satrapies using the title of King Artaxerxes V of [[Achaemenid Empire|Persia]].
* Crossing the [[Hindu Kush]] northward, probably over the [[Khawak Pass]],<ref>Smith, Vincent A. (1908) ''The Early History of India'', p. 45. Oxford. The Clarendon Press.</ref> Alexander brings his army, despite food shortages, to [[Kunduz|Drapsaka]]. Outflanked, Bessus flees beyond the [[Amu Darya|Oxus river]].
* Marching west to [[Balkh|Bactra (Zariaspa)]], Alexander appoints [[Artabazus of Phrygia]] as the [[satrap]] of [[Bactria]].
* Crossing the Oxus, Alexander sends his general [[Ptolemy I Soter|Ptolemy]] in pursuit of Bessus. In the meantime, Bessus is overthrown by the [[Sogdia]]n [[Spitamenes]]. Bessus is captured, flogged, and sent to Ptolemy in Bactria with the hope of appeasing Alexander. In due course, Bessus is publicly executed at [[Ecbatana]]. With the death of Bessus (Artaxerxes V), Persian resistance to Alexander the Great ceases.
* From [[Maracanda]], Alexander advances through [[Cyropolis]] to the [[Jaxartes]] river, the boundary of the Persian Empire. There he breaks the opposition of the [[Scythia]]n nomads by his use of catapults and, after defeating them in a battle on the north bank of the river, pursues them into the interior. On the site of modern [[Khujand]] on the Jaxartes, he founds a city, [[Alexandria Eschate]], "the farthest."
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== Births ==
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== Deaths ==
* [[Bessus]] (Artaxerxes V), Persian nobleman and satrap of Bactria, and later the last claimant to the Achaemenid throne of Persia

== References ==
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