Medes

The Medes^{[N 1]} (/miːdz/, Auld Persie Māda-, Ancient Greek: Μῆδοι, Hebrew: מָדַי‬) war an auncient Iranian fowk^{[N 2]} wha lived in an aurie kent as Medie (northwestren Iran) an who spoke the Median leid.

Median Empire Mādai
c. 678 BC–549 BC
A map of the Median Empire; based on Herodotus
Caipital	Ecbatana
Common leids	Median
Releegion	Old Iranian religion (related to Mithraism, early Zoroastrianism)
Govrenment	Monarchy
King
• 678–665 BC	Deioces or Kashtariti
• 665–633 BC	Phraortes
• 625–585 BC	Cyaxares
• 589–549 BC	Astyages
Historical era	Iron Age
• Established	c. 678 BC
• Conquered by Cyrus the Great	549 BC
Aurie
585 BC[1][2]	2,800,000 km2 (1,100,000 sq mi)
Precedit bi Succeedit bi Neo-Assyrian Empire Urartu Achaemenid Empire

Notes

1. Accordin tae the OED entry "Mede", the wird is frae Clessical Laitin Mēdus (uisually as plural, Mēdī) frae auncient Greek (Attic an Ionic) Μῆδος (Cypriot ma-to-i Μᾶδοι, plural) frae Auld Persie Māda.^[3]
2. A) "..and the Medes (Iranians of what is now north-west Iran).." EIEC (1997:30). B) "Archaeological evidence for the religion of the Iranian-speaking Medes of the .." (Diakonoff 1985, p. 140). C) ".. succeeded in uniting into a kingdom the many Median tribes" (frae Encyclopædia Britannica ^[4]). D) "Proto-Iranian split into Western (Median, and others) and Eastern (Scythian, Ossetic, Saka, Pamir and others)..." (Kuz'mina, Elena E. (2007), The origin of the Indo-Iranians, J. P. Mallory (ed.), BRILL, p. 303, ISBN 978-90-04-16054-5)

References

1. Turchin, Peter; Adams, Jonathan M.; Hall, Thomas D (December 2006). "East-West Orientation of Historical Empires". Journal of world-systems research. 12 (2): 223. ISSN 1076-156X. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
2. Taagepera, Rein (1979). "Size and Duration of Empires: Growth-Decline Curves, 600 B.C. to 600 A.D." Social Science History. 3 (3/4): 121. doi:10.2307/1170959. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
3. OED Online "entry Mede, n.".:
4. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Media (ancient region, Iran)