Word: andromachus
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...Samaritans revolted against Alexander the Great and burned to death his prefect Andromachus. An avenging Macedonian army thereupon invaded Samaria, surrounded 300 Samaritan nobles hiding in a cave near Jericho, and by lighting fires at the entrance of the cave managed to asphyxiate the Samaritans...
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