Cyrus the Great entering Ecbatana, after defeating the Medians. Ecbatana was the capital city of the Median Empire Cyrus II of Persia, c. 600/ 576 – 530 BC, aka Cyrus the Great and Cyrus the Elder. Founder of the Achaemenid Empire and King of Persia, Anshan, Media, Babylon, Sumer and Akkad. After a 19th century work by an unidentified artist.

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