Azemilcus, King of Tyre

Azemilkos (Greek Ἀζέμιλκος; † after 332 BC), the king of Tyre was during the time of the Alexanderzugs.

Like all other Phoenician city of kings was a vassal of the Persian Achaemenid Empire Azemilkos and commanded since 334 BC, the fleet of Tyre in the fight against Alexander the Great. He was there the Persian fleet commander assumed Autophradates. When Alexander BC invaded Phoenicia in the spring of 332, most cities submitted to him without a fight, as Sidon, Byblos and Arados whose kings deposed by the Persian fleet association with their ships and went over to Alexander. However, a delegation of Tyre refused the Conqueror access to the Neustadt, which was in front on an island of the old town, whereupon he took up their siege. Azemilkos was not therefore involved at this time on the high seas and in these events, he reached with his ships the city when the siege was already underway.

As Tyre was stormed in July 332 BC, Azemilkos fled with a delegation of the Tyrian daughter city of Carthage in the temple of Melkarth, which was equated by the Greeks with Heracles. According to the report, Arrian's Alexander spared the life of all those who had fled into the temple of asylum, while the male population killed and the women and children were led into slavery. Diodorus reported to the fact that Alexander the king ( called by him Straton ) deposed and replaced him with a certain Ballonymos. Obviously, he had the story of the king appoint the Abdalonymus mistakenly moved from Sidon to Tyre.