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Bookmark or Share- Medes - World History EncyclopediaThe Medes or Medians were a group of Indo-Iranian-speaking people from central Asia who migrated to northern Iran around the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. By the end of the 7th century BCE, they founded the kingdom of Media, which was absorbed into the Achaemenid Empire by Cyrus II c. 550 BCE.
- The Early Medes and the Median Empire (History of Ancient Iran ...In this video podcast, we'll take a look at one of the most overlooked peoples of ancient history, the Medes, and reconstruct their early history using Assyrian, Babylonian and Greek sources, namely Herodotus (the Medes don't have any primary sources of their own).
- Medes - WikipediaThe Medes / ˈmiːdz / [N 1] ( Old Persian: 𐎶𐎠𐎭 Māda-; Akkadian: mat Mādāya, mat Mātāya; [2] Ancient Greek: Μῆδοι Mēdoi; Latin: Medi) were an ancient Iranian people [N 2] who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran.
- Mede | people | BritannicaMede, one of an Indo-European people, related to the Persians, who entered northeastern Iran probably as early as the 17th century bc and settled in the plateau land that came to be known as Media.
- Media (region) - WikipediaMedia ( Old Persian: 𐎶𐎠𐎭, romanized: Māda, Middle Persian: Mād) is a region of north-western Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Medes. [N 1] During the Achaemenid period, it comprised present-day Iranian Azerbaijan, Iranian Kurdistan and western Tabaristan.
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