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Ecbatana ( Old Persian: Haŋgmatana, Agbatana in Aeschylus and Herodotus, elsewhere Ἐκβάτανα Ekbatana, Agámtanu by Nabonidos, and Agamatanu at Behistun ; modern Hamadan, Iran ) ( literally: the place of gathering ; ; ) is supposed to be the capital of Astyages ( Istuvegü ), which was taken by the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great in the sixth year of Nabonidus ( 549 BC ).
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Ecbatana and Persian
It was in the sixth year of Nabonidus ( 549 BC ) that Cyrus, the Achaemenid Persian " king of Anshan " in Elam, revolted against his suzerain Astyages, " king of the Manda " or Medes, at Ecbatana.
Darius then fled to Ecbatana and attempted to raise a third army, while Alexander took possession of Babylon, Susa, and the Persian capital at Persepolis.
* Before continuing his pursuit of Darius III, who has retreated into Bactria, Alexander assembles all the Persian treasure and entrusts it to Harpalus, who is to hold it at Ecbatana as chief treasurer.
Under the Persian kings, Ecbatana, situated at the foot of Mount Alvand, became a summer residence.
* Ecbatana: The seat of the Persian kings, it is foretold in an oracle to be another place where Demos will someday sit in judgement ( line 1089 ).
Chandragupta established a strong centralized state with a complex administration at Pataliputra, which, according to Megasthenes, was " surrounded by a wooden wall pierced by 64 gates and 570 towers — ( and ) rivaled the splendors of contemporaneous Persian sites such as Susa and Ecbatana.
Mani's father Pātik ( Middle Persian Pattūg ; Greek Παττικιος, Arabic Futtuq ), a native of Ecbatana ( modern Hamadan, Iran ), was a member of the Jewish-Christian sect of the Elcesaites ( a subgroup of the Gnostic Ebionites ).
From near Babylon, it is believed to have split into two routes, one traveling northeast then east through Ecbatana and on along the Silk Road, the other continuing east through the future Persian capital Susa ( in present-day Iran ) and then southeast to Persepolis.
According to Megasthenes, Pataliputra of the period of Chandragupta, was " surrounded by a wooden wall pierced by 64 gates and 570 towers — ( and ) rivaled the splendors of contemporaneous Persian sites such as Susa and Ecbatana ".
Ecbatana and Herodotus
According to Herodotus ( 3. 64 ) he died in Ecbatana, i. e. Hamath ; Josephus ( Antiquites xi.
In the fifth century B. C., Herodotus wrote of Ecbatana: " The Medes built the city now called Ecbatana, the walls of which are of great size and strength, rising in circles one within the other.
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After being freed by Cyrus the Great, he went to Ecbatana and remained there until he died, and was buried somewhere nearby, in what is today Toyserkan.
* Battle of Ecbatana: The Seleucid King Antiochus VII Sidetes is defeated and killed by the Parthians under Phraates II, ending Seleucid control over Media or Mesopotamia.
Snow would either be saved in the cool-keeping underground chambers known as " yakhchal ", or taken from snowfall that remained at the top of mountains by the summer capital — Hagmatana, Ecbatana or Hamedan of today.
A secret message is sent by Alexander to Cleander, Parmenion's second in command, who obediently kills Parmenion at Ecbatana in Media for fear that he would rise up in revolt at the news of his son's death.
Ecbatana was first excavated in 1913 by Charles Fossey.
Some scholars think that the problem can be resolved by identifying the Ecbatana / Hagmatana mentioned in later Greek and Achaemenid sources with the city Sagbita / Sagbat frequently mentioned in Assyrian texts, since the Indo-Iranian sound / s / turned into / h / in many Iranian languages.
The province of Kurdistan, formed by Sanjar, had as its capital the village Bahar ( which means " spring "), near ancient Ecbatana ( Hamadan ), capital of the Medes.
The poet Ferdowsi says that Ecbatana was built by King Jamshid.
He was born in the Median capital of Ecbatana, his father Phraortes was killed in a battle against the Assyrians, led by Ashurbanipal, the king of Neo-Assyria.
* Ecbatana: In 245 BCE, the region of what is now Iran was ruled by a kingdom known as Parthia.
The poet Ferdowsi says that Ecbatana was built by King Jamshid.
The inscription is approximately 15 metres high by 25 metres wide, and 100 metres up a limestone cliff from an ancient road connecting the capitals of Babylonia and Media ( Babylon and Ecbatana ).
The date of his reign suggests that he rebelled against Vologases IV but was unable to maintain himself against Vologases V. His coins were issued by the mint at Ecbatana, suggesting that he controlled Media.
The habit of depositing and storing of wealth in temples continued at least until 209 B. C., as evidenced by Antioch having ransacked or pillaged the temple of Aine in Ecbatana ( Media ) of gold and silver.
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Astyages ' army betrayed him to his enemy, and Cyrus established himself at Ecbatana, thus putting an end to the empire of the Medes.
Following his coronation at Pasargadae, Darius moved to Ecbatana.
There were headquarters of imperial administration at Persepolis, Susa, and Babylon while Bactria, Ecbatana, Sardis, Dascyclium and Memphis also had branches of imperial administration.
When at Ecbatana, Darius learned of Alexander's approaching army, he decided to retreat to Bactria where he could better use his cavalry and mercenary forces on the more even ground of the plains of Asia.
In due course, Bessus is publicly executed at Ecbatana.
* Alexander the Great spends the summer and autumn at the Median capital, Ecbatana, where his best friend, Hephaistion, dies during the autumn.
Golden Rhyton from Iran's Achaemenid period, excavated at Ecbatana.
Tigranes apparently invaded territories as far away as Ecbatana and took the title king of kings which, at the time, according to their coins, even the Parthian kings did not assume.
When he died suddenly at Ecbatana, Alexander was overwhelmed with grief.
Darius, who was then reigning, caused a search for this alleged decree to be made, and it was found in the archives at Ecbatana, whereupon Darius reaffirmed the decree and the work proceeded to its triumphant close.
The city of Ecbatana, or Tauris, is the usual residence of Uzun-Hassan ; Persepolis or Shiras ..., which is twenty-four days journey from thence, being the last city of his empire, bordering on the Zagathais, who are the sons of Buzech, sultan of the Tartars, and with whom he is continually at war.
Coin of Phraates III from the mint at Ecbatana.
Coin of Artabanus II from the mint at Ecbatana.
Ecbatana and ;
Cyrus marched against the country Ecbatana ; the royal residence he seized ; silver, gold, other valuables of the country Ecbatana he took as booty and brought to Anšan.
Ecbatana and modern
Sir Henry Rawlinson attempted to prove that there was a second and older Ecbatana in Media Atropatene on the site of the modern Takht-i-Suleiman.
" They built him first a palace and then a capital, Ecbatana ( modern Hamadan ).
Some time in the first half of the 20th Century two gold tablets relating to Ariarmnes were found in Hamadan, modern Ecbatana.
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