Cyaxares

Cyaxares
Cyaxares the Great
King
Reign 625 BC - 585 BC (according to Herodotus)
Birthplace Ecbatana (Modern day - Hamadan)
Buried Syromedia (modern day Silemani, Kurdistan Region), according to Igor Diakonov[1]
Predecessor Phraortes
Successor Astyages
Dynasty Median Dynasty
Religious beliefs Pre-Zoroastrian Iranian religion

Cyaxares, Cyaxares the Great [2] or Hvakhshathra (Old Persian:


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