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Cyrus the Great
Cyrus II of Persia, commonly known as Cyrus the Great, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Hailing from Persis, he brought the Achaemenid dynasty to power by defeating the Median Empire and embracing all of the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanding vastly across most of West Asia and much of Central Asia to create what would soon become the largest empire in history at the time. The Achaemenid Empire's greatest territorial extent was achieved under Darius the Great, whose rule stretched from Southeast Europe and Northeast Africa in the west to the Indus Valley in the east.
politics · Founder of the Achaemenid Empire · sovereign · military leader · founder · monarch · also Cyrus the Great, Cyrus II of Persia, Cyrus the Elder, Cyrus, Cyrus II, Kurosh
Born 600 BC · Died 530 BC · Q8423
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Cyrus the elder, brought up in Woods and Mountains, when time and power enabled, pursued the dictate of his education, and brought the treasures of the field into rule and circum-scription. So nobly beautifying the hanging Gardens of Babylon, that he was also thought to be the author thereof.
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“Cyrus the elder, brought up in Woods and Mountains, when time and power enabled, pursued the dictate of his education, and brought the treasures of the field into rule and circum-scription. So nobly beautifying the hanging Gardens of Babylon, that he was also thought to be the author thereof.”
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And is kept today in the British Museum in London
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By the German philologist Gustav Moritz Redslob, but it was largely dismissed in the Western world
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