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Map of the Achaemenid Empire showing the location of Cyropolis in Sogdiana.. Cyreschata (Old Persian: Kuruškaθa), [4] [5] better known by its Latin name Cyropolis (Ancient Greek: Κυρούπολις or Κύρου πόλις, Kyroúpolis), [6] both meaning "City of Cyrus", was an ancient city founded by Cyrus the Great to mark the northeastern border of his Achaemenid Empire.
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, [16] also known as the Persian Empire [16] or First Persian Empire [17] (/ ə ˈ k iː m ə n ɪ d /; 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.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 22:10, 1 December 2024: 672 × 442 (309 KB): Devlet Geray: Darius never reached Crimea and stopped his advance somewhere near Danube.
Pasargadae (/pə'sɑrgədi/; [a] Persian: پاسارگاد, romanized: Pāsārgād) was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great (559–530 BC). Today it is an archaeological site located just north of the town of Madar-e-Soleyman and about 90 kilometres (56 mi) to the northeast of the modern city of Shiraz.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 22:01, 1 December 2024: 672 × 442 (198 KB): Devlet Geray: Darius lost to Scyhians = he didn't control Crimea even for a day
Location of Achaemenid Cappadocia. Cappadocia (from Old Persian 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 Katpatuka ) was a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid Empire located in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey ). It was used by the Achaemenids to administer the regions beyond the Taurus Mountains and the Euphrates river.
The province was part of the Seleucid Empire but was captured by others on various occasions and became part of the Maurya Empire [6] and Parthian Empire in 167 BC. Aria was sometime between the late 2nd- and early 3rd-century conquered by the Kushan Empire , who would later in ca. 230 lose the province to the Sasanian Empire , where it became ...
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