Cyaxares
The third and greatest king of the Medes (625-585 BC) · Lived 700 BC to 585 BC · aged 115
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Something wrong?He ended 28 years of Scythian rule over Media, then allied with Babylon to erase the Assyrian Empire from the map - the king who turned a fractured Iranian plateau into a single imperial force.
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Cyaxares took the throne in 625 BC after his father Phraortes died fighting the Assyrians, likely against Ashurbanipal. For nearly three decades the Scythians, Assyrian allies, controlled Media while he bided his time. He overthrew them, consolidated power, and forged an alliance with Babylon that dismantled Assyria entirely. By uniting most of the Iranian peoples under Median rule, he elevated what had been a fragmented region into one of the ancient world's major powers.
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