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Mandane was a Median princess and, later, the queen consort of the Persian king Cambyses I and the mother of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. The name likely originates from the Old Iranian *Mandanā-, which means “delighting, cheerful”.
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politics · Wife of Cambyses I · monarch · also Mandane of Media, Media
Born 591 BC · Died 559 BC · Q271260
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