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Darius the Mede

The king 'who received the kingdom' at Babylon's fall in Daniel's telling (5:31; 11:1 stands 'in his first year') — and the book's famous historical puzzle: no king of this name appears in the Babylonian or Persian records between Belshazzar and Cyrus. The proposals: a throne-name of Cyrus himself ('Darius the Mede, that is, Cyrus the Persian' is even a possible reading of 6:28); Gubaru/Ugbaru, the general-governor who took Babylon the night it fell; or an error of the tradition. Reported, not adjudicated.

in the text Dan 11:1
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