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  2. Cyrus the Great - Wikipedia

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    Cyrus II "the Great" was a son of Cambyses I, who had named his son after his father, Cyrus I. [36] There are several inscriptions of Cyrus the Great and later kings that refer to Cambyses I as the "great king" and "king of Anshan". Among these are some passages in the Cyrus cylinder where Cyrus calls himself "son of Cambyses, great king, king ...

  3. List of monarchs of Iran - Wikipedia

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    Cyrus the Great 559–530 BC (Emperor of the first unified Persian Empire) ... The Great King, The Great King of Kings, Dikaios, Epiphanes, Theos, Eupator, Theopator ...

  4. Cyrus the Great in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Cyrus the Great, who founded the Achaemenid Empire in 550 BC and ruled it until his death in 530 BC, is the subject of much praise in the Hebrew Bible. He is noted for his role in conquering the Neo-Babylonian Empire and thereafter liberating the Jewish people from the Babylonian captivity , which had begun after the fall of the Kingdom of ...

  5. Return to Zion - Wikipedia

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    In 539 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus the Great issued the Edict of Cyrus allowing the Jews to return to Jerusalem and the Land of Judah, which was made a self-governing Jewish province under the new Persian Empire. The Persian period marks the onset of the Second Temple period in Jewish history.

  6. Cyrus Cylinder - Wikipedia

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    The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several pieces, on which is written an Achaemenid royal inscription in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of the Persian king Cyrus the Great. [2] [3] It dates from the 6th century BC and was discovered in the ruins of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon (now in modern Iraq ...

  7. Siege of Sardis (547 BC) - Wikipedia

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    The previous year Croesus, the king of Lydia, impelled by various considerations, invaded the kingdom of Cyrus the Great.Croesus hoped to quell the growing power of Achaemenid Persia, expand his own dominions and revenge the deposition of his brother-in-law Astyages. [3]

  8. List of people known as the Great - Wikipedia

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    In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to have been a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King" (King of Kings, Shahanshah). It was first used by Cyrus II of Persia . [ 1 ] The title was inherited by Alexander III when he conquered the Persian Empire, and the epithet eventually became personally associated with him.

  9. Nabonidus Chronicle - Wikipedia

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    The Nabonidus Chronicle is an ancient Babylonian text, part of a larger series of Babylonian Chronicles inscribed in cuneiform script on clay tablets.It deals primarily with the reign of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, covers the conquest of Babylon by the Persian king Cyrus the Great, and ends with the start of the reign of Cyrus's son Cambyses II, spanning a period ...