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Median Empire | |||||||||
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c. 625 BCE–549 BCE | |||||||||
Capital | Ecbatana | ||||||||
Religion | Zoroastrianism, possibly also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion | ||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
King | |||||||||
Historical era | Iron Age | ||||||||
• | c. 625 BCE | ||||||||
• | 549 BCE | ||||||||
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The Medes were one of the ancestors of Kurdish people who lived in the northwestern portions of present-day Iran. This area was known in Greek as Media or Medea They entered this region with the first wave of Iranian tribes, in the late second millennium BC (at the end of the Bronze Age).