united Median kingdom or state, at least for most of the 7th century BCE. In spite of the fact that the Medes managed to form a powerful kingdom stretching...
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Medes (redirect from Median people)
suggesting that there never was a powerful Median kingdom. In any case, it appears that after the fall of the last Median king against the Persian king Cyrus...
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Look up Median, median, médian, medían, or medián in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Median may refer to: Median (statistics), in statistics, a number...
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The median income is the income amount that divides a population into two groups, half having an income above that amount, and half having an income below...
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Deioces (category Median dynasty)
(Ancient Greek: Δηιόκης) was the founder and the first King of the Median kingdom, an ancient polity in western Asia. His name has been mentioned in different...
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Ecbatana (section Median kingdom (678–550 BC))
script. Ecbatana (/ɛkˈbætənə/) was an ancient city, the capital of the Median kingdom, and the first capital in Iranian history. It later became the summer...
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Scythians (redirect from Scythian kingdom in Western Asia)
ascending Median Empire of Cyaxares annexed Urartu, after having already annexed Mannai in 616 BC. This rise of Median power forced the Scythian kingdom to leave...
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Medo-Persian conflict (category Battles involving the Median kingdom)
the Median king Astyages against Persis in the mid 6th-century BCE. Classical sources claim that Persis had been a vassal of the Median kingdom that...
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this Era see: List of Parthian monarchs List of rulers of Parthian sub-kingdoms Note: Classical Persia is generally agreed to have ended with the collapse...
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Battle of the Eclipse (redirect from Lydo-Median war)
Leloux: The Battle of the Eclipse (May 28, 585 BC): A Discussion of the Lydo-Median Treaty and the Halys Border. In: Polemos. Volume 19, no. 2, 2016, ISSN 1331-5595...
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37°00′N 35°30′E / 37.0°N 35.5°E / 37.0; 35.5 The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (Middle Armenian: Կիլիկիոյ Հայոց Թագաւորութիւն, Kiligio Hayoc’ T’akavorut’iun)...
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Phraortes (category Median dynasty)
Phraortes, son of Deioces, was the second king of the Median kingdom. Like his father Deioces, Phraortes started wars against Assyria, but was defeated...
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territory of the Kingdom of Ararat (860 BC–590 BC) after it was conquered by the Median Empire in 590 BC. The satrapy became a kingdom in 321 BC during...
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Astyages (category Articles containing Median-language text)
symbols instead of cuneiform script. Astyages was the last king of the Median kingdom, reigning from 585 to 550 BCE. The son of Cyaxares, he was dethroned...
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Battle of Nineveh (612 BC) (category Battles involving the Median kingdom)
Assyria. The Babylonians then allied with the Medes and Scythians. The Median army took Tarbisu, near Nineveh, and encamped nearby; they then attacked...
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Median household disposable income in the UK was £29,400 in the financial year ending (FYE) 2019, up 1.4% (£400) compared with growth over recent years;...
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A median strip, central reservation, roadway median, or traffic median is the reserved area that separates opposing lanes of traffic on divided roadways...
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Middle Eastern empires (section 1000 BCE – 550 BCE: the Neo-Assyrian, Phoenician, Median, Chaldean and Lydian Empires)
the creator of the Median kingdom was one Deioces who, according to Herodotus, reigned from 728 to 675 BCE and founded the Median capital Ecbatana(Hâgmatâna...
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This article is a list of countries by median age. The median age is the index that divides the entire population into two numerically equal age groups...
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Cyrus the Great (section Median Empire)
from Persis, he brought the Achaemenid dynasty to power by defeating the Median Empire and embracing all of the previous civilized states of the ancient...
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Urartu (redirect from Kingdom of Urartu)
Iron Age kingdom centered around the Armenian highlands between Lake Van, Lake Urmia, and Lake Sevan. The territory of the ancient kingdom of Urartu...
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off...
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Teispid Kingdom (688 BC – 550 BC) Median Empire (678 BCE – 549 BCE) Achaemenid Empire (550 BCE – 330 BCE) Kingdom of Atropatene (323 BCE – 226 CE) Kingdom of...
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Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire (category Battles involving the Median kingdom)
century of Assyrian rule. The Neo-Babylonian Empire, and the newly-formed Median Empire under King Cyaxares (r. 625–585 BC), then invaded the Assyrian heartland...
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Halys River as having been set as the border between the Lydian and the Median kingdom, which appears to have been a retroactive narrative construction based...
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Fall of Harran (category Battles involving the Median kingdom)
Harran refers to the siege and capture of the Assyrian city of Harran by the Median and Neo-Babylonian empires. From the year 639 BC, the Neo-Assyrian Empire...
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is a clay castle in Kerman, Iran. It was built in the times of the Median kingdom. During the Seljuk period the castle was considered a refuge for the...
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total aggregate wealth by the number of adults) can be much higher than the median (the amount that divides the population into two equal groups).[citation...
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Michigan left (redirect from Median U-turn crossover)
late 1960s. In other contexts, the intersection is called a median U‑turn crossover or median U‑turn, or restricted crossing U-turn (RCUT). The design is...
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Siege of Harran (category Battles involving the Median kingdom)
Assyria with the offensive of Cyaxares, king of the Medes, in 616 BC. The Median forces swiftly conquered Tarbisu and decisively defeated the Assyrian army...
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