Cyrus the Great (Person, Concept)

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Cyrus the Great (en), Cyrus II (fr), Ciro II di Persia (it), Kyros II. (de), Κύρος Β΄ (el), Ciro II el Grande (es)Additional labels
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Cyrus II of Persia (en)

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Cyrus II of Persia (Old Persian: 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 Kūrauš; Kourosh; New Persian: کوروش Kuruš; Hebrew: כורש, Modern: Kōréš, Tiberian: Kōréš; c. 600 – 530 BC), commonly known as Cyrus the Great, and also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Western Asia and much of Central Asia.

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