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- Cyrus the Great, also known as Cyrus II of Persia and Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty. As...
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- Achaemenes was the satrap of Egypt from 484 BC until his death in 460 BC, and a member of the Achaemenid dynasty. According to Herodotus, he was a...
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- Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II and Parysatis, was a Persian prince and general. The time of his birth is unknown, but he died in 401 BC. He...
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- Teispes ("Cišpiš" ; Greek ; died 640 BC) was the son of Achaemenes and a King of Persia. He captured the Elamite city of Anšan and called him...
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- Arsames (Aršāma, modern Persian: ارشام‎, Greek: ; - ca. 520 BC) was the son of Ariaramnes and perhaps briefly the king of Persia during the Ach...
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- Harpagus (also known as Harpagos or Hypargus), (Akkadian: Arbaku, Arbaces), was a Median general from the 6th Century BCE credited by Herodotus as...
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- Amestris or Amastris was the wife of King of Kings Xerxes I of Persia, mother of king Artaxerxes I of Persia. Her reputation is very bad among...
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- Mandane of Media (b. c. 584 BCE) was a Princess of Media and, later, the Queen consort of Cambyses I of Anshan and mother of Cyrus the Great, ruler...
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- Artaxerxes IV Arses, King of Persia between 338 BC and 336 BC. He was the youngest son of King Artaxerxes III and Atossa and was not expected to...
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- Artystone ` was a Persian princess, daughter of king Cyrus the Great, and sister or half-sister of Atossa. Along with Atossa and her niece Parmys,...
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