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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