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Cyrus

Persian:کورش

Other Forms:Kurosh, Kourosh, Koresh


King of Persia; Persian prince; male first name; family name; village in Minnesota/US
Cyrus II known as Cyrus the Great ( 585-529 BC) founder of the Achaemenian Empire: As the grandson of Cyrus I came to power by overthrowing his maternal grandfather, the king of the Medes. The empire he developed was thenceforth centered on Persia and included Media, Ionia, Lydia, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine. Cyrus conquered mostly by diplomacy. The subject of a rich legend in Persia and Greece, Cyrus was called the father of his people. He appears in the Bible as the liberator of the Jews held captive in Babylon. He died battling nomads in Central Asia. His legacy is the founding not only of an empire but of a culture and civilization that continued to expand after his death and lasted for two centuries. He exerted a strong influence on the Greeks. Awarded heroic qualities in legend, he has long been revered by Iranians almost as a religious figure.

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Cyrus Tomb Pasargadae. Cyrus the Great Kurosh-e-Bozorg) (c. 600 BC or 576 BC - December 530 BC), also known as Cyrus II was the founder of the country Iran and the Achaemenid Dynasty.
Cyrus Tomb Pasargadae. Cyrus the Great Kurosh-e-Bo...
Cyrus The Great's Tomb in Pasargadae. It was under Cyrus The Great that the Persian Empire embraced all previous civilized states of the ancient Near East.
Cyrus The Great's Tomb in Pasargadae. It was under...
Atoosa the daughter of Cyrus The Great, half sister to Cambysis who married Dariush is a prominent woman in the Iranian history.
Atoosa the daughter of Cyrus The Great, half siste...
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