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Media
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Key facts
- Capital
- Ecbatana
- Establishment of the medes
- c. 678 BC
- Fall of the median dynasty
- c. 549 BC
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- Instance of
- historical region
- Religion
- Mithraic mysteries
- Capital
- Ecbatana
- Head of state
- Cyrus the Great
- Form of government
- monarchy
- Followed by
- Achaemenid Empire
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- ethnic group
- Medes
- replaced by
- Jibal
- topic's main category
- Category:Medes
- start time
- 0672-00-00
- Commons category
- Median Empire
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 0550-00-00
- language used
- Median
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Today part ofIran
Medes (region)
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