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The Median Kingdom in the History of the Ancient East
 
PIIS032103910008024-9-1
DOI10.31857/S032103910008024-9
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Inna Medvedskaya 
Affiliation: Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS
Address: Russian Federation, Saint-Petersburg
Journal nameVestnik drevnei istorii
Edition
Pages895-904
Abstract

The article considers the main stages of the history of the Median kingdom from the time of its rise after the successful anti-Assyrian rebellion at the end of 670 BC to 550 BС. It was then that the Median Deioceid dynasty fell and all the power in the state was inherited by the Persian Achaemenide dynasty. The data in favor of the existence of the Median kingdom as well as of the Median-Persian kingdom afterwards, presented by the author, do not support the hypothesis of the existence of a "federation" of Median tribes instead of the Median kingdom, and of the Medes' participating in the fall of Assyria just as mercenaries of the Babylonian king.

KeywordsMedia, Assyria, Deioceid, Achaemenide, Hamadan plain, Herodotus, Sagbat/Ecbatana
Received24.12.2019
Publication date25.12.2019
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