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Cyrus I
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Cyrus I died in 580 BCE. The subject is associated with a Commons category of the same name.
The provided records contain conflicting data regarding this individual. One source lists an author named C. I. Scofield, born in 1843 and deceased in 1921, who has 124 works. These include "The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments," "Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth," "Dr. C. I. Scofield's Question box," "In many pulpits," and "Plain papers on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit." Another source indicates a works count of 5.
Additional metadata describes the artist type as "Other" with a country code of "XW." The gender is listed as "Not applicable," and genres are marked as "fixme or cleanup," "special purpose," "special purpose artist," and "unknown." The subject is referenced by 166 other encyclopedia articles.
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Key facts
- Reign
- 600–580 BC
- Predecessor
- Teispes
- Successor
- Cambyses I
- Died
- 580 BC, Anshan
- Burial
- 580 BC, Gur-e-Dokhtar
- Spouse
- Parsumaš
- Issue
- Cambyses I , Arukku
- Dynasty
- Achaemenid ( Teispid )
- Father
- Teispes
- Religion
- Zoroastrianism
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Cyrus
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Anshan Persia
- Place of death
- Anshan Persia
- Spouse
- Mandane of Media
- Child
- Arukku
- Father
- Teispes
- Sibling
- Ariaramnes
- Occupation
- sovereign
- Position held
- Great King
- Languages spoken
- Elamite
- Family
- Achaemenid dynasty
- Image
- Cyrus I seal.png
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- date of death
- 0580-00-00
- Commons category
- Cyrus I
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Encyclopedic overview
Cyrus I (Old Persian: Kuruš) or Cyrus I of Anshan or Cyrus I of Persia, was King of Anshan in Persia from c. 600 to 580 BC or, according to others, from c. 652 to 600 BC. Cyrus I of Anshan is the grandfather of Cyrus the Great, also known as Cyrus II. His name in Modern Persian is کوروش, Kūroš, while in Greek he was called Κῦρος, Kȳros.
Life
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