Ancient country, Middle East. It was situated in present-day northwestern Iran and was home to the Medes, an Iranian people. In 625 &BC; Cyaxares united the area's tribes into a kingdom.
In 614 &BC; he captured Ashur and later defeated the Assyrian empire and seized territory in Iran, northern Assyria, and Armenia. In 550 &BC; it became part of the new Persian Achaemenian dynasty under Cyrus II. Alexander the Great occupied it in 330 &BC;. In the partition of his empire, southern Media was given to the Macedonians and then to the Seleucids; northern Media became the kingdom of Atropatene, which passed to Parthia, Armenia, and Rome. In 226 &BC; the whole of Media passed to the Sāsānians, another Persian dynasty.
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