ecbatana in A Sentence

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    Cyrus revolted against the Median Empire in 553 BC, in 550 BC succeeded in defeating the Medes, capturing Astyages and taking the Median capital city of Ecbatana.

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    While southern Media, with Ecbatana, passed to the rule of Antigonus, and afterwards(about 310) to Seleucus I, Atropates maintained himself in his own satrapy and succeeded in founding an independent kingdom.

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    While southern Media, with Ecbatana, passed to the rule of Antigonus, and afterwards(about 310 BC) to Seleucus I, Atropates maintained himself in his own satrapy and succeeded in founding an independent kingdom.

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    Its foundation is mythically ascribed to Keyumars, the first king of the world in Persian legend; and it is at least certain that, at a very early date, it was the rival of Ecbatana, Nineveh and Babylon.

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    And he answered:“I know it. And I have frequently walked through all its paths, and I stayed with Gabael, our brother, who lives in Rages, a city of the Medes, which is situated at the mount of Ecbatana.”.

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    After the assassination of the usurper Smerdis, a Mede Fravartish(Phraortes), claiming to be a scion of Cyaxares, tried to restore the Mede kingdom, but was defeated by the Persian generals and executed in Ecbatana(Darius I in the Behistun inscription).

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