Major conflict553 BCE – 550 BCE · 3 years

Cyrus II's Median Conquest

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Media · Iran

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Cyrus II's conquest of the Median Empire, the first major Persian triumph.

Belligerents2

Persian Empire
Media

ON THE MAPAchaemenid Persian Empire

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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