Cyrus the Great
c. 600–530 BCE
Founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire.
Cyrus the Great (c. 600–530 BCE) was a king, born in Anshan Persia and died in Syr Darya.
- Known as
- King
- Category
- Leaders & Baddies
- Born
- c. 600 BCE, Anshan Persia
- Died
- 530 BCE, Syr Darya
Alive at the same time as Cyrus the Great
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Portrait: Charles Francis Horne Clarence Cook, Public domain.
