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• Medes abstract "The Medes /midz/ (Hebrew: מָדַי, Old Persian Māda-) were an ancient Iranian people who lived in an area known as Media (North-western Iran and south-east Turkey) and who spoke a northwestern Iranian language referred to as the Median language. Their arrival to the region is associated with the first wave of Aryans tribes in the late 2nd millennium BCE (the Bronze Age collapse) through the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE.From the 10th to late 7th centuries BCE, the Medes and Persians fell under the domination of the Neo-Assyrian Empire based in Mesopotamia.After the fall of the Assyrian Empire, between 616 BCE and 605 BCE, a unified Median state was formed, which, together with Babylonia, Lydia, and Egypt became one of the four major powers of the ancient Near East. An alliance with the Babylonians and the Scythians helped the Medes to capture Nineveh in 612 BCE which resulted in the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The Medes were subsequently able to establish their Median kingdom (with Ecbatana as their royal centre) beyond their original homeland (central-western Iran) and had eventually a territory stretching roughly from northeastern Iran to the Halys River in Anatolia. The Median kingdom was conquered in 550 BCE by Cyrus the Great, who established the Iranian dynasty—the Persian Achaemenid Empire.A few archaeological sites (discovered in the "Median triangle" in western Iran) and textual sources (from contemporary Assyrians and also Greeks in later centuries) provide a brief documentation of the history and culture of the Median state. The Medes had exactly the same equipment as the Persians; and indeed the dress common to both is not so much Persian as Median. These (Medes & Persians) were called anciently by all people Aryans. Apart from a few personal names, the language of the Medes is almost entirely unknown. It was most likely similar to the Avestan and Scythian languages, however a number of words from the Median language are still in use, and there are languages being geographically and comparatively traced to the northwestern Iranian language of Median. The Medes had an Ancient Iranian Religion (a form of pre-Zoroastrian Mazdaism or Mithra worshipping) with a priesthood named as "Magi". Later and during the reigns of the last Median kings, the reforms of Zarathustra spread in western Iran.Besides Ecbatana (modern Hamedan), the other cities existing in Media were Laodicea (modern Nahavand) and the mound that was the largest city of the Medes, Rhages (also called Rey), on the outskirts of Shahr Rey, south of Tehran. The fourth city of Media was Apamea, near Ecbatana, whose precise location is unknown. In later periods, Medes and especially Mede soldiers are identified and portrayed prominently in ancient Persian archaeological sites such as Persepolis, where they are shown to have a major role and presence in the military of the Persian Empire's Achaemenid dynasty.According to the Histories of Herodotus, there were six Median tribes:Thus Deioces collected the Medes into a nation, and ruled over them alone. Now these are the tribes of which they consist: the Busae, the Paretaceni, the Struchates, the Arizanti, the Budii, and the Magi.The six Median tribes resided in Media proper, the triangle between Ecbatana, Rhagae and Aspadana, in today's central Iran, the area between Tehran, Isfahan and Hamadan. Of the Median tribes, the Magi resided in Rhaga, modern Tehran. It was a sort of sacred caste, which ministered to the spiritual needs of the Medes. The Paretaceni tribe resided in and around Aspadana, modern Isfahan, the Arizanti lived in and around Kashan and the Busae tribe lived in and around the future Median capital of Ecbatana, modern Hamadan. The Struchates and the Budii lived in villages in the Median triangle.".
• Medes capital Ecbatana.
• Medes capital Hamedan.
• Medes dissolutionYear "-0549".
• Medes foundingYear "-0678".
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• Medes article "Kurdish languages".
• Medes capital "Ecbatana, modern Hamadan".
• Medes commonLanguages Median_language.
• Medes commonName "Media".
• Medes continent "Asia".
• Medes conventionalLongName "Median Empire or Median Confederation".
• Medes country "Iran".
• Medes date "August 2013".
• Medes era "Golden Age".
• Medes eventEnd "Conquered by Cyrus the Great".
• Medes eventStart "Deioces united Median tribes".
• Medes flagP "Map of Assyria.png".
• Medes flagS "Standard of Cyrus the Great .svg".
• Medes governmentType "Monarchy".
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• Medes imageMapCaption "A map of Median Empire; based on Herodotus".
• Medes leader Astyages.
• Medes leader Cyaxares.
• Medes leader Phraortes.
• Medes leader "Deioces or Kashtariti".
• Medes p "Neo-Assyrian Empire".
• Medes region "Ancient Near East".
• Medes religion "Old Iranian religion".
• Medes s "Achaemenid Empire".
• Medes titleLeader List_of_kings_of_Persia.
• Medes yearEnd "549".
• Medes yearLeader "589".
• Medes yearLeader "625".
• Medes yearLeader "665".
• Medes yearLeader "678".
• Medes yearStart "c. 678 BCE".
• Medes subject Category:549_BC_disestablishments_in_Iran.
• Medes subject Category:7th-century_BC_establishments_in_Iran.
• Medes subject Category:Achaemenid_satrapies.
• Medes subject Category:Ancient_Iranian_peoples.
• Medes subject Category:Ancient_Persia.
• Medes subject Category:History_of_Iran.
• Medes subject Category:Iranian_dynasties.
• Medes subject Category:Medes.
• Medes subject Category:Provinces_of_the_Sasanian_Empire.
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• Medes comment "The Medes /midz/ (Hebrew: מָדַי, Old Persian Māda-) were an ancient Iranian people who lived in an area known as Media (North-western Iran and south-east Turkey) and who spoke a northwestern Iranian language referred to as the Median language.".
• Medes label "Meden".
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• Medes label "Mèdes".
• Medes label "Мидия".
• Medes label "ميديون".
• Medes label "米底王国".
• Medes sameAs Médie.
• Medes sameAs Medien_(Land).
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• Medes sameAs Media.
• Medes sameAs Mèdes.
• Medes sameAs Medi.
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• Medes sameAs Meden.
• Medes sameAs Medos.
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• Medes wasDerivedFrom Medes?oldid=605111024.
• Medes depiction Map_of_Assyria.png.
• Medes isPrimaryTopicOf Medes.

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