Gobrias

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Achaemenid official general historical figure

Gobrias is a figure mentioned in ancient Near Eastern and classical sources, often associated with the Medo-Persian conquest of Babylon and the fall of King Belshazzar.

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Label	Occurrences
Gobrias canonical	1

Statements (27)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Achaemenid official ⓘ general ⓘ historical figure ⓘ
associatedWith	Achaemenid Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Babylon NERFINISHED ⓘ Belshazzar NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyrus the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ Medo-Persian conquest of Babylon NERFINISHED ⓘ transition from Neo-Babylonian Empire to Achaemenid rule ⓘ
culture	Mesopotamian ⓘ Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
historicalStatus	partly uncertain and debated in scholarship ⓘ
languageTransliterationVariant	Gobryas NERFINISHED ⓘ Gubaru NERFINISHED ⓘ Ugbaru ⓘ
mentionedIn	Babylonian sources ⓘ ancient Near Eastern sources ⓘ classical Greek sources ⓘ
notableEvent	fall of Babylon to the Medo-Persians ⓘ overthrow of Belshazzar ⓘ
notedFor	role in the capture of Babylon without major destruction (in some accounts) ⓘ
positionHeld	governor under the Achaemenid administration (attributed in some sources) ⓘ
role	military commander in the conquest of Babylon ⓘ
sourceType	Greek historiography ⓘ cuneiform chronicles ⓘ
timePeriod	6th century BCE ⓘ

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

George Frideric Handel’s oratorio "Belshazzar" → character → Gobrias ⓘ

subject surface form: Belshazzar