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  1. Medes - Wikipedia

    The Medes[N 1] were an Iron Age Iranian people who spoke the Median language [N 2] and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around the 11th …

  2. Medes - World History Encyclopedia

    Jan 17, 2024 · The Medes or Medians were a group of Indo-Iranian-speaking people from central Asia who migrated to northern Iran around the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. By the end of …

  3. Medes - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The Medes were an ancient Iranian people and one of the ancestors of modern Kurdish people [2][3][4][5][6][7] who lived in the northwestern portions of present-day Iran.

  4. Mede | people | Britannica

    May 8, 2025 · Menes was the legendary first king of unified Egypt. According to tradition, he joined Upper and Lower Egypt in a single centralized monarchy and established ancient …

  5. History of Medes Empire in Ancient Iran | Destination Iran

    Feb 17, 2025 · The Medes were an ancient Iranian ethnic group that established a powerful empire in Northwestern Iran during the first millennium B.C., known for their role in …

  6. Medes and Media - Jewish Virtual Library

    MEDES AND MEDIA (Heb. מָדַי; in Akkadian inscriptions: Madai), a people of Indo-Iranian origin, closely related to the Persians, who inhabited the mountainous area of Iran and the …

  7. Mede Empire | Encyclopedia.com

    Based in what is today northwestern Iran, the Mede Empire combined features of a monarchy and a tribal confederation. The archaeological remains of Ecbatana (modern-day Hamadan), a …

  8. History of the Medes (Median) empire – History of Kurdistan

    Apr 20, 2020 · The Medes were an people of Aryan origin who inhabited the western and north-western portion of present-day Iran. By the 6th century BC (prior to the Persian invasion) the …

  9. 6. The Medes And The Persians - bible.org

    Jan 1, 2008 · The history of the Medes and the Persians, constituting as it does accurate and meticulous fulfillment of God’s prophetic Word, is another important evidence supporting the …

  10. The Medes: Founders of the Media Kingdom

    The Medes, an Indo-Iranian-speaking people from Central Asia, migrated westwards and settled in northern Iran around the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. By the end of the 7th century BCE, …

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