Medes

n. member of a people who lived in ancient Media; native or resident of Media

Mede redirects here. For the town in Italy, see Mede (Italy). The Medes were an ancient Iranian people, who lived in the north, western, and northwestern portions of present-day Iran, and roughly the areas of present day Kurdistan, Hamedan, Tehran, Azarbaijan, north of Esfahan and Zanjan. This abode of the Medes was known in Greek as Media or Medea (Μηδία, Old Persian ; adjective Median, antiquated also Medean). Under Assyrian rule, the Medes were known as Mādāyu. They entered this region with the first wave of Iranian tribes, in the late second millennium BC (the Bronze Age collapse).
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v. measure, gauge; chain; mete; scale

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