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Amytis (daughter of Astyages)
Amytis was, according to the Greek historian Ctesias, a daughter of Astyages, the last king of the Medes, and later a wife of Cyrus the Great.
Amytis of Media
Amytis of Media is a Median princess whom Berossus reports as the wife of Nebuchadnezzar II, married to seal the Median-Babylonian alliance after the capture of Aššur in 614 BC.
Ariaramnes
Ariaramnes (Old Persian Ariyāramna) is the great-grandfather of Darius I in the Achaemenid royal genealogy, son of Teispes and father of Arsames, possibly an early king of Persia.
Arsames
Arsames (Aršāma) was a member of the early Achaemenid royal line, named at Behistun as the grandfather of Darius I; whether he reigned is disputed.
Astyages
Astyages, known in Akkadian as Ištumegu, was the last king of Media, son of Cyaxares, who reigned from about 585 to 550 BC until Cyrus II captured his capital Ecbatana.
Cyaxares
Cyaxares (Old Iranian Uvaxštra) was king of Media, in northwestern Iran, from about 625 to 585 BC, best known for destroying Assyria and capturing Nineveh in 612 BC.
Cyaxares I
Cyaxares I, named Uksatar in Assyrian records, was a Median ruler who paid tribute to Sargon II in 714 BC, distinct from the later Median king Cyaxares.
Daltā
Daltā, also rendered Dalta, was king of Ellipi, a kingdom in the Zagros foothills of western Iran, known from Assyrian records from 737 BC until his death and the succession war between his sons.
Deioces
Deioces (Greek Deiokes) is, according to Herodotus, the first king of the Medes, unifier of the Median tribes, and founder of the capital Ecbatana; his existence is disputed.
Ishpabara
Ishpabara, also spelled Išpabara, was king of Ellipi in the central Zagros mountains, placed on the throne by Sargon II and defeated by Sennacherib in 702 BC.
Kurash of Parsumash
Kurash of Parsumash, also rendered Cyrus of Parsumash, was a Persian ruler who sent his son Arukku with tribute to the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal about 639 BC.
Mandane
Mandane (Old Iranian Mandanā) is, in Greek literary tradition, a daughter of the Median king Astyages, the wife of Cambyses I, and the mother of Cyrus the Great.
Nibe
Nibe (Nibê) was a claimant to the throne of the ancient kingdom of Ellipi in western Iran, defeated by the Assyrian king Sargon II around 713 BC.
Phraortes
Phraortes (Old Iranian Fravartiš, possibly Khshathrita of Assyrian records) was the second king of the Medes per Herodotus, son of Deioces and father of Cyaxares, who subjugated the Persians and died in battle against Assyria.
Ramataia
Ramataia (Ramataya) was a Median city lord of Urakazabanu who in 672 BC swore a loyalty treaty to Esarhaddon of Assyria, known from tablets found at Nimrud in 1955.
Talta
Talta (Tālta) was a king of Ellipi, a kingdom in present-day Luristan in western Iran, who paid tribute to Assyria's Tiglath-pileser III in 737 BC and Sargon II in 716 and 714 BC.
Teispes
Teispes (Old Persian Čišpiš) was an early king of Anshan in southwestern Iran, about 675-640 BC, and the common ancestor of the Achaemenid dynasty's two lines.