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Medes
Median Empire Mādai | |||||||||||
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| c. 678 BC–549 BC | |||||||||||
 A map of the Median Empire; based on Herodotus | |||||||||||
| Caipital | Ecbatana | ||||||||||
| Common leids | Median | ||||||||||
| Releegion | Old Iranian religion (related to Mithraism, early Zoroastrianism) | ||||||||||
| Govrenment | Monarchy | ||||||||||
| King | |||||||||||
• 678–665 BC | Deioces or Kashtariti | ||||||||||
• 665–633 BC | Phraortes | ||||||||||
• 625–585 BC | Cyaxares | ||||||||||
• 589–549 BC | Astyages | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Iron Age | ||||||||||
• Established | c. 678 BC | ||||||||||
• Conquered by Cyrus the Great | 549 BC | ||||||||||
| Aurie | |||||||||||
| 585 BC[1][2] | 2,800,000 km2 (1,100,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||
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The Medes[N 1] (/miːdz/, Auld Persie Māda-, Ancient Greek: Μῆδοι, Hebrew: מָדַי) war an auncient Iranian fowk[N 2] wha lived in an aurie kent as Medie (northwestren Iran) an who spoke the Median leid.
- ↑ Turchin, Peter; Adams, Jonathan M.; Hall, Thomas D (December 2006). "East-West Orientation of Historical Empires". Journal of world-systems research. 12 (2): 223. ISSN 1076-156X. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ↑ Taagepera, Rein (1979). "Size and Duration of Empires: Growth-Decline Curves, 600 B.C. to 600 A.D." Social Science History. 3 (3/4): 121. doi:10.2307/1170959. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ↑ OED Online "entry Mede, n.".:
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica Online Media (ancient region, Iran)
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