Ecbatana - Wikipedia
Ecbatana [a] (/ ɛ k ˈ b æ t ən ə /) was an ancient city, the capital of the Median kingdom, and the first capital in Iranian history. It later became the summer capital of the Achaemenid and Parthian empires. [2] It was also an important city during the Seleucid and Sasanian empires.
Ecbatana | Iran, Map, History, & Facts | Britannica
Ecbatana, ancient city on the site of which stands the modern city of Hamadān, Iran. Ecbatana was the capital of Media and was subsequently the summer residence of the Achaemenian kings and one of the residences of the Parthian kings.
ECBATANA – Encyclopaedia Iranica
1997年12月15日 · ECBATANA (Ekbātān, present-day Hamadān), capital of the Median empire, summer capital of the Achaemenids, and satrapal seat of the province of Media from Achaemenid to Sasanian times. Location and environment.
Ecbatana: The Legendary Ancient City - To Iran Tour
2023年6月20日 · Ecbatana, also known as Hagmatāna or Haŋmatāna, holds a significant place in history as the ancient capital of Medes in western Iran. This historic city later became a prominent center in the Persian, Seleucid, and Parthian empires.
Mysterious Medes: Was It An Ancient City Of Ecbatana?
2020年7月3日 · Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New cultural relics have been revealed during the 70-day long excavations that shed new light on the mysterious capital of Medes, which is widely believed to be in Ecbatana, an ancient city on the site of which stands the modern city of Hamadan in west-central Iran.
Median kingdom - Wikipedia
It is in the period between the fall of Nineveh in 612 BCE and the conquest of the Median capital Ecbatana by the Persians in 550 BCE that the existence of a powerful Median Empire is postulated.
Achaemenid Settlements | Ecbatana - History Archive
Ecbatana is the supposed capital of Astyages (Istuvegü), which was taken by the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great in the sixth year of Nabonidus (549 BC). According to the Histories of the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus, Ecbatana was founded by one Deioces, the legendary first king of the Medes.
Ecbatana - Wikiwand
Ecbatana (/ ɛkˈbætənə /) was an ancient city, the capital of the Median kingdom, and the first capital in Iranian history. It later became the summer capital of the Achaemenid and Parthian empires. It was also an important city during the Seleucid and Sasanian empires.
Ecbatana (Hamadan) - Livius
Ecbatana (Old Persian Hagmatana, "gathering place"): main settlement of the Medes, modern Hamadan. According to the Histories of the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus, Ecbatana was founded by one Deioces, the legendary first king of the Medes. Herodotus writes:
IRANIAN WORLD: ECBATANA - (CAIS)
Ecbatana (48h°31' E, 34°h48' N; alt. 1,800 m) is in the Zagros mountains of central-west Iran at the base of the eastern slope of the Alvand range (q.v.; the classical Mount Orontes; Diodorus Siculus, 2.13.7; Polybius, 10.27; "Iasonius mons" of Ammianus Marcellinus, 23.6.39).