Darius I completed the Persian Royal Road in the fifth century BCE, stretching nearly 2,000 miles from the Tigris River to the Aegean Sea.
Darius I completed the Persian Royal Road in the fifth century BCE, stretching nearly 2,000 miles from the Tigris River to the Aegean Sea.
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