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Cyrus II the Great, son of Cambyses I, ruled from c. 550 - 530 BC. Cambyses II, his son, ruled 530 - 521 BC. Smerdis, his alleged brother, ruled 521 BC. Darius the Great, his brother-in-law and grandson of Arsames, ruled 521 -486 BC. Xerxes I, his son, ruled 486 - 465 BC. Artaxerxes I, his son, ruled 464 - 424 BC.
By the 1st millennium BCE, Medes, Persians, Bactrians and Parthians populated the Iranian plateau, while others such as the Scythians, Sarmatians, Cimmerians and Alans populated the steppes north of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, as far as the Great Hungarian Plain in the west.
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, [16] also known as the Persian Empire[16] or First Persian Empire[17] (/ əˈkiːmənɪd /; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' [18] or 'The Kingdom' [19]), was an Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC. Based in modern-day Iran, it was the ...
Although Persis (Persia proper) was only one of the provinces of ancient Iran, [28] varieties of this term (e.g., Persia) were adopted through Greek sources and used as an exonym for all of the Persian Empire for many years. [29] Thus, especially in the Western world, the names Persia and Persian came to refer to all of Iran and its subjects ...
Achaemenid dynasty (559–334/327 BC) The Great King, King of Kings, King of Anshan, King of Media, King of Babylon, King of Sumer and Akkad, King of the Four Corners of the World. Cyrus the Great. –. 600 BC. Son of Cambyses I king of Anshan and Mandana daughter of Astyages. 559–530 BC.
Indo-European studies. v. t. e. The Iranian peoples, [1] or the Iranic peoples, [2] are the collective ethno-linguistic groups [1][3] who are identified chiefly by their native usage of any of the Iranian languages, which are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages within the Indo-European language family.
The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was known in the Western world) is intertwined with Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning from Anatolia to the Indus River and from the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf. Central to this area is modern-day Iran, which covers the bulk of the Iranian plateau. Iran is home to one of the world's oldest ...
Satuni (c. 2270 BCE contemporary with Naram-Sin king of Akkad and Khita king of Awan) Irib (c. 2037 BCE) Darianam (c. 2000 BCE) Ikki (precise dates unknown) Tar ... duni (precise dates unknown) son of Ikki. his inscription is found near the inscription of Anubanini. Nur-Adad (c. 881 – 880 BCE)