The Battle of Gaugamela, aka the Battle of Arbela, 331 BC, between the forces of Darius III, last king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia, and Alexander the Great of Macedon. This was the decisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire.

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