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Ecbatana /ɛkˈbætənə/ (Old Persian: 𐏃𐎥𐎶𐎫𐎠𐎴 Hagmatāna or Haŋmatāna,
literally "the
place of gathering"
according to
Darius the Great's inscription...
- The
Battle of
Ecbatana was
fought in 129 BC
between the
Seleucids led by
Antiochus VII
Sidetes and the
Parthians led by
Phraates II, and
marked the final...
- families, that of the
blind Tobit in
Nineveh and of the
abandoned Sarah in
Ecbatana. Tobit's son
Tobias is sent to
retrieve ten
silver talents that
Tobit once...
- as the
Ecbatana Hill, was the true
place of the
ancient city of
Ecbatana. Some historians,
including Henry Rawlinson,
believe that the
Ecbatana mentioned...
- was
adopted by the new sovereigns, who in the
summer months resided in
Ecbatana; and many
noble Medes were emplo**** as officials,
satraps and generals...
- Gr****: Mēdía; in Akkadian: Mādāya) was a
political entity centered in
Ecbatana that
existed from the 7th
century BCE
until the mid-6th
century BCE and...
- in 728 BC led to the
foundation of the
Median Empire and
their capital Ecbatana,
unifying Iran as a
nation for the
first time in 625 BC. By 612 BC, the...
- the
northeastern and
eastern region of
Mesopotamia in the
vicinity of
Ecbatana (present-day Hamadan).
Their consolidation in Iran is
believed to have...
-
capturing Astyages and
taking the
Median capital city of
Ecbatana. Once in
control of
Ecbatana,
Cyrus styled himself as the
successor to
Astyages and ****umed...
- The Ganj
Nameh ("treasure epistle") in
Ecbatana. The
inscriptions are by
Darius I and his son
Xerxes I....
