Cyrus II Unites Persia

Dates: 559 BC

After c. 559 b.c. Cyrus united the various Persian tribes into one nation, and between 553 and 550 b.c. defeated his grandfather Astyages and took over the Median Empire with its capital, Ecbatana.

Cyrus II Unites Persia — Image of an old Iranian painting depicting a portrait of Cyrus II the Great, founder of the Persian Empire, Charles F. Horne, ed., The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, (New York: Parke, Austin, & Lipscomb, 1917), Vol. I: Babylonia and Assyria, pp. 460-462; The Bible (Douai-Rheims Version), (Baltimore: John Murphy Co., 1914)

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