Orontopates

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Orontopates (on his coins Rhoontopates ; † after 331 BC) was a Persian nobleman and governor in the 4th century BC.

Orontopates followed as the husband of the younger Ada around the year 335 BC. After his father-in-law Pixodaros in office as satrap of Caria . He had the approval of the Great King Darius III. whereby he was able to assert his claims to rule in Caria against the elder Ada , his wife's aunt. In 334 BC But Alexander the Great began his campaign in Asia. After his victory in the Battle of Granikos , the elder Ada allied herself with the Macedonian king, whom she even adopted. Orontopates entrenched himself in his capital Halicarnassus , which he was able to defend against Alexander for several months with the support of the general Memnon ( siege of Halicarnassus ), but ultimately he had to give up the city. The victorious Alexander installed the elder Ada as the ruling princess in Caria. Orontopates was able to hold the two port fortresses for another year, but after a lost field battle against the strategos Ptolemaios and the satrap Asandros had to hold them in the autumn of 333 BC. Give up and flee to the court of the great king. He fought for him in 331 BC. In the decisive battle at Gaugamela , after that nothing is known about him.

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SURNAME Orontopates
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rhoontopates
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Satrap of Caria
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 331 BC Chr.