Cyrus II of Persia (Old Persian: 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 Kūruš; c. 600–530 BC), commonly known as Cyrus the Great was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Hailing...
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Cyrus King (September 6, 1772 – April 25, 1817) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, half-brother of Rufus King. Born in Scarborough in Massachusetts...
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invaded by Cyrus and incorporated into his Persian Empire. The text on the Cylinder praises Cyrus, sets out his genealogy and portrays him as a king from a...
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600–530 BC). Cyrus is also the name of Cyrus I of Anshan (c. 650 BC), King of Persia and the grandfather of Cyrus the Great; and Cyrus the Younger (died...
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Cyrus the Great was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire and king of Persia from 559 to 530 BC. He is venerated in the Tanakh as Cyrus the Messiah for...
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The Edict of Cyrus usually refers to the biblical account of a proclamation by Cyrus the Great, the founding king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, in...
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The Tomb of Cyrus the Great (Persian: آرامگاه کوروش بزرگ, Ârâmgâh-e Kuroš-e Bozorg) is the final resting place of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the...
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Brownmule on the CMT sitcom Still the King. Billy Ray Cyrus was born on August 25, 1961, in Flatwoods, Kentucky, to Ron Cyrus, a steelworker who became a politician...
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Cyrus I (Old Persian: Kuruš) or Cyrus I of Anshan or Cyrus I of Persia, was King of Anshan in Persia from c. 600 to 580 BC or, according to others, from...
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titles assumed by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire after his conquest of Babylon in 539 BC. In the text of the Cyrus Cylinder, Cyrus assumes several...
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reads, in part: “I am Cyrus, king of the universe, the great king, the powerful king, king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four quarters...
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conquest of Babylon by the Persian king Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, in 539 BC. The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder...
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151. Soares 2017, p. 21. Da Riva 2013, p. 12. Cyrus Cylinder. New Cyrus Cylinder Translation. Cyrus Cylinder Translation. Peat 1989, p. 199. Handy 1994...
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Fall of Babylon (category Battles of Cyrus the Great)
incorporated into the Persian empire as a satrapy. As recorded in the Cyrus Cylinder, Cyrus vowed to respect the Babylonian people. He also allowed exiled peoples...
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BC. 539 BC—Babylon is conquered by Cyrus, defeating Nabonidus. 538 BC— The Babylonian Captivity ends when Cyrus, king of Persia, allows Jews in Babylon...
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place Daniel at the court of Cyrus, king of the Persians: "When King Astyages was laid to rest with his ancestors, Cyrus the Persian succeeded to his...
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Dhu al-Qarnayn (redirect from Theories about Cyrus the Great in the Quran)
commentaries identifying Dhu al-Qarnayn as Cyrus. Archeological evidence cited includes the Cyrus Cylinder, which portrays Cyrus as a worshipper of the Babylonian...
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Ezra 1 (section Cyrus Cylinder)
before the birth of Cyrus (Isaiah 44:28; 45:13) and the fulfillment of his word through Jeremiah. Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the...
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𐎣𐎲𐎢𐎪𐎡𐎹 Kambūjiya) was king of Anshan from c. 580 to 559 BC and the father of Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II), younger son of Cyrus I, and brother of Arukku...
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Harpagus to kill the child Cyrus. Herodotus correctly names Cyrus' parents, though he fails to mention that Cambyses was a king. Modern scholarship generally...
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Bangerz (redirect from Bangerz (Miley Cyrus album))
praised its production and originality but were divided on Cyrus' provocative image. It became Cyrus' fifth number-one album on the US Billboard 200, and was...
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Harpagus (category Officials of Cyrus the Great)
gifts to Cyrus to keep contact with him, as he worked to turn the nobles of Media against Astyages. When they were ready, he sent a message to Cyrus, hidden...
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Darius the Mede (category Cyrus the Great)
Darius the Mede is mentioned in the Book of Daniel as King of Babylon between Belshazzar and Cyrus the Great, but he is not known to secular history and...
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2 Chronicles 36 (section The edict of Cyrus (36:22–23))
Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of...
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first governor of Maine and a prominent merchant, and his other brother, Cyrus King, was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. His wife, Mary Alsop, was...
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Van Hise), G. Clinton Killingsworth (Sam Henderson), Liz Rywelski, King Cyrus King, Dicky Betts Jr. (Matt Gibson), Moonbeam (Evander Green), Thu Butler...
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Tomyris (section Death of Cyrus)
Cyrus to free him, and after Cyrus acquiesced to his pleas, he killed himself. After Tomyris found out about the death of Spargapises, she sent Cyrus...
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reigned: c. 585 – c. 546 BC) was the king of Lydia, who reigned from 585 BC until his defeat by the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 547 or 546 BC. According...
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Achaemenid Empire (redirect from Cyrus (I))
Cyrus placed Pactyes in charge of collecting tribute in Lydia and left, but once Cyrus had left Pactyes instigated a rebellion against Cyrus. Cyrus sent...
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of Asia Minor. There, Cyrus met the Spartan general Lysander. In him, Cyrus found a man who was willing to help him become king, just as Lysander himself...
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