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  Xerxes may refer to these Persian kings:
  • Xerxes I of Persia
    Xerxes I of Persia

    Xerxes the Great, also known as Xerxes I of Persia, was a Persian Empire of the Achaemenid Empire. X?rxes is the Greek language form of the Old Persian throne name X?ayar?a, meaning "Ruler of heroes"....
    , reigned 485–465 BC, aka (also known as) Xerxes the Great
  • Xerxes II of Persia
    Xerxes II of Persia

    Xerxes II was a Persians monarch and the son and successor of Artaxerxes I. After a reign of forty-five days, he was assassinated in 424 BC by his brother Sogdianus, who in turn was murdered by Darius II of Persia....
    , reigned 424 BC


Xerxes may also refer to:
  • Xerxes of Armenia
    Xerxes of Armenia

    Xerxes was the Kingdom of Sophene and son of Arsames II. During his reign Antiochus III the Great invaded his capital Arsamosata. Xerxes recognized Antiochus as his sovereign and received his sister Antiochia as his bride, who later assassinated him....
    , Armenian king, assassinated about 212 BC
  • Xerxes of Commagene, third Satrap of the state of Commagene (228 to 201 BC).
  • Xerxes, ancient country in the Fullmetal Alchemist
    Fullmetal Alchemist

    Fullmetal Alchemist, known in Japan as , is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The world of Fullmetal Alchemist is styled after European Industrial Revolution....
     manga
  • Serse
    Serse

    Serse is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed in London on 15 April 1738. The libretto is adapted by an unknown hand from that by Silvio Stampiglia for an earlier Xerse by Giovanni Bononcini in 1694....
     (Xerxes), opera by George Frideric Handel
  • Xerse
    Xerse

    Xerse is an opera by Francesco Cavalli - specifically, a dramma per musica about Xerxes I. The libretto was written by Nicol? Minato, and was later set by both Giovanni Bononcini and George Frideric Handel....
    , Cavalli's earlier opera to the same libretto as Handel's
  • Xerxes, novel by Louis Couperus
    Louis Couperus

    Louis Marie-Anne Couperus was a Netherlands novelist and poet of the late 19th and early 20th century. He is usually considered one of the foremost figures in Dutch literature....
  • Xerxes (Dune), character in Brian Herbert's Legends of Dune universe
  • Xerxes, character in Disney's Aladdin
    Aladdin (TV series)

    Aladdin is an animated television series made by Walt Disney Television which aired from 1994 to 1996, based on the original Aladdin . Coming on the heels of the direct-to-video sequel The Return of Jafar, the series picked up where that installment left off, with Aladdin still living on the streets of Agrabah, engaged to beautiful an...
  • Xerxes (Klaus Lunde), Norwegian musician/producer Klaus Lunde's recording project
  • XerxesDZB
    XerxesDZB

    XerxesDZB is a Netherlands football club based in Rotterdam.The club was founded in 1904 as RFC Xerxes and their first regional championship was won in 1907....
    , a former Dutch professional football team
  • XERXES, a character in the video game System Shock 2
    System Shock 2

    System Shock 2 is an action role-playing game video game, designed by Ken Levine for the personal computer . The title is a sequel to the 1994 PC game System Shock, and was co-developed by Irrational Games and Looking Glass Studios....
  • Xerxes, Xerxes.X and Xerxes.20, a series of audiophile-grade turntables designed/manufactured by Touraj Moghaddam of Roksan Audio
    Roksan Audio

    Roksan is a British manufacturer of high fidelity audio products for domestic use, based in Alperton, Middlesex, United Kingdom, was formed in 1985 by Touraj Moghaddam & Tufan Hashemi, graduates of the University of London, Imperial College London & Queen Mary, University of London....
     (UK)


See also:
  • Ahasuerus
    Ahasuerus

    Ahasuerus is a name used several times in the Hebrew Bible, as well as related legends and apocrypha....
  • Xerces (disambiguation)
    Xerces (disambiguation)

    Xerces can refer to*Xerces, a family of software packages for parsing and manipulating XML.*Xerces Blue, an extinct butterfly.* The Xerces Society, an environmental organization that focuses on invertebrates....