Cyrus the Great
600 BCE–530 BCE · Anshan (Tall-e Malyan), Fars
Cyrus the Great (died 530 BCE) founded the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest the world had yet seen, conquering the Median, Lydian, and Neo-Babylonian kingdoms; Babylon fell to him in 539 BCE. He is significant in Jewish tradition for ending the Babylonian exile: his edict permitted the exiled Judeans to return to Jerusalem and authorized the rebuilding of the Temple. Later Persian and Greek writers alike remembered him as a model of just and tolerant rule.
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Anshan (Tall-e Malyan), Fars
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Born to Cambyses I into the Achaemenid line ruling Anshan, a Persian kingdom in Fars with a mixed Persian-Elamite population. He succeeded his father as a vassal king under Median overlordship.
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