Achaemenid Empire
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title:
Achaemenid Empire
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The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire, was an Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC. Based in modern-day Iran, it was the largest empire by that point in history, spanning a total of 5.5 million square kilometres. The empire spanned from the Balkans and Egypt in the west, West Asia as the base, the majority of Central Asia to the northeast, and the Indus Valley to the southeast. Around the 7th
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Ancient Iranian empire (550–330 BC)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire
date created:
2003-07-01T17:49:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T21:28:22Z
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