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Astyages in Wikipedia

Astyages (spelled by Herodotus as Ἀστυάγης - Astyages; by Ctesias as Astyigas; by Diodorus as Aspadas; Akkadian: Ištumegu; Kurdish: Azhdihak or Ajdihak, Persian: Persian: ایشتوویگو (Ištovigu)), was the last king of the Median Empire, r. 585 BCE-550 BCE, the son of Cyaxares; he was dethroned in 550 BCE by Cyrus the Great. His name derives from the ...

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Bartatua (In Greek Sources Protothyes) in Wikipedia

Bartatua or Partitava (old Iranian *Partatava, mentioned by Herodotus as Protothyes), was a Scythian king, who established friendly relations with Assyria. He married a daughter of Assyrian king Essarhaddon. After his death, his son Madys became his successor....

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Athaliah in Wikipedia

Athaliah, also spelled Athalia or Atalia (Hebrew: עֲתַלְיָה‎, ʻĂṯalyâ, "God is exalted"; Greek: Γοθολια; Latin: Athalia) was the queen of Judah during the reign of King Jehoram, and later became sole ruler of Judah for six years. William F. Albright has dated her reign to 842 – 837 BC, while Edwin R. Thiele's dates, as taken from the third edition ...

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Cyrus Ii The Great in Wikipedia

Cyrus the Great (Old Persian: 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁[3], IPA: [kʰuːruʃ], Kūruš[4], Persian: کوروش بزرگ, Kūrosh-e-Bozorg) (c. 600 BC or 576 BC – December[5][6] 530 BC), also known as Cyrus II or Cyrus of Persia,[7] was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty.[8] It was under his own rule that the empire...

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Cyaxares (Babylonian Umakishtar) in Wikipedia

yaxares or Hvakhshathra (Old Persian: 𐎢𐎺𐎧𐏁𐎫𐎼[1] Uvaxštra[2], Greek Κυαξάρης; r. 625 - 585 BC), the son of King Phraortes, was the first king of Media [3]. He reorganized and modernized the Median Army, then joined with King Nabopolassar of Babylonia. This alliance was formalized through the marriage ...

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Bel-Ibni in Wikipedia

Bel-ibni was a Babylonian nobleman who served as King of Babylon for several years as the nominee of the Assyrian king Sennacherib. Sennacherib, believing that direct Assyrian rule was too costly, appointed Bel-ibni, a young Babylonian nobleman raised at the Assyrian court, King of Babylon in 703 BC. The experiment with a native puppet king was h...

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Cyrus I (Babylonian Kurash) in Wikipedia

Cyrus I (Old Persian Kuruš) or Cyrus (II), was King of Anshan in Persia from c. 600 to 580 BC or, according to others, from c. 652 to 600 BC. He should not be confused with his famous grandson Cyrus the Great, also known as Cyrus II. His name in Modern Persian is کوروش, while in Greek he was called Κῦρος, Kȳros. Cyrus was an early member of the Ac...

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Atossa in Wikipedia

Atossa (from Old Persian *Utauθa, and Avestan Hutaosā) was an Achaemenid queen and daughter of Cyrus the Great. She lived from 550 BC to 475 BC and probably was a sister (or half-sister) of the Persian king Cambyses II. Atossa married Darius I during 522 BC after Darius, with the help of the nobleman Otanes, defeated the followers of a man claimin...

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Hadadezer in Wikipedia

Hadadezer ("Hadad is my help"); also known as Adad-Idri (Assyr.) and possibly the same as Bar-Hadad II (Aram.); Ben-Hadad II (Heb.), was the king of Aram Damascus at the time of the battle of Qarqar against the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III in 853 BCE. He and Irhuleni of Hamath led a coalition of eleven kings (listed as twelve) at Qarqar (including...

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Ashur-Ahhe-Iddina in Wikipedia

Esarhaddon (Akkadian: Aššur-ahhe-iddina "Ashur has given a brother to me"; Aramaic: ܐܵܫܘܿܪ ܐܵܗܐܹ ܐܝܼܕܝܼܢܵܐ; Hebrew: אֵסַר חַדֹּן‎;[1] Ancient Greek: Ασαραδδων;[2] Latin: Asor Haddan[3]), was a king of Assyria who reigned 681 – 669 BC. He was the youngest son of Sennacherib and the Aramean queen Naqi'a (Zakitu), Sennacherib's second wife. When, de...

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