Cyrus II of Persia

Cyrus II the Great (Old Persian: 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁, Kūruš, modern Persian: کوروش بزرگ, Kurosh-e Bozorg) (c. 590 BC or 576 — August  530 BC), also known as Cyrus II of Persia and Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty. As leader of the Persian people in Anshan, he conquered the Medes and unified the two separate Iranian kingdoms; as the king of Persia, he reigned over the new empire from 559 BC until his death. The empire expanded under his rule, eventually conquering most of Southwest Asia and much of Central Asia, from Egypt and Hellespont in the west to the Indus River in the east, to create the largest state the world had yet seen.
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