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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:battle
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gptkbp:aftermath
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opened Asia Minor to Macedonian conquest
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gptkbp:casualties
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Macedonian: about 400
Persian: about 4,000
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gptkbp:combatant
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gptkb:Achaemenid_Persian_Empire
gptkb:Macedonian_army
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gptkbp:commander
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gptkb:Alexander_the_Great
gptkb:Memnon_of_Rhodes
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gptkbp:date
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334 BC
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gptkbp:followedBy
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gptkb:Siege_of_Halicarnassus
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gptkbp:historicalSource
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gptkb:Plutarch
gptkb:Justin
gptkb:Arrian
gptkb:Diodorus_Siculus
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Battle of Granicus
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gptkbp:location
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gptkb:Granicus_River
near modern-day Biga, Turkey
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gptkbp:notableParticipant
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gptkb:Arsites
gptkb:Callas
gptkb:Cleitus_the_Black
gptkb:Mithridates
gptkb:Parmenion
gptkb:Philotas
gptkb:Spithridates
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gptkbp:partOf
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Alexander's campaign in Asia Minor
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gptkbp:precededBy
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gptkb:Crossing_of_the_Hellespont
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gptkbp:purpose
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to secure Asia Minor for Alexander
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gptkbp:relatedEvent
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gptkb:Battle_of_Gaugamela
gptkb:Battle_of_Issus
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gptkbp:result
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Macedonian victory
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gptkbp:significance
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first major battle between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Alexander_the_Great
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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5
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