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Cyrus the Great

Cyrus the Great

Founder of the Achaemenid Empire, who took Babylon without a battle in 539 BCE.

Person

– 530 BCE O.S.

Identifiers
Wikidata Q8423

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Relations

enemy of:
  • Nabonidus

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conquered:
  • Babylon

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  • Lydia

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founded:
  • Achaemenid Empire

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Appears in7 items

  • Alexander’s Campaigns1 item
    • Cyrus’s tomb robbed · tomb ownerc. Jan 324 BCE O.S.
  • Ancient Greece1 item
    • Croesus asks the oracle at Delphi · adversaryc. 550 BCE O.S.
  • Mesopotamia2 items
    • Babylon falls to Cyrus · conqueror12 Oct 539 BCE O.S.
    • Cyrus enters Babylon · conqueror29 Oct 539 BCE O.S.
  • The Bible: Story and Scholarship2 items
    • The Babylonian exile · Persian liberator587 BCE
    • A second Isaiah names Cyrus · Persian kingc. 545 BCE
  • The World’s Religions1 item
    • Babylon destroys the First Temple: the exile · liberatorc. 587 BCE

Mentioned in1 item

  • The Iranian Revolution1 item
    • The imperial calendarEsfand 1354 SH

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