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ID: 6000039
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6000039
Record Type:
administrative
Achaemenid Empire (former nation/state/empire)
Coordinates:
Lat: 29 56 04 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 29.9340
decimal degrees
Long: 052 53 29 E
degrees minutes
Long: 52.8910
decimal degrees
Note:
In 550 BCE, the Persian prince Cyrus rebelled against the Median king and welded the Medes and Persians together. The empire flourished until 330 BCE when Alexander the Great burnt its capital Persepolis to the ground.
Names:
Achaemenid Empire
(
preferred
,
C
,
O
)
Achaemenid
(
C
,
O
)
Achaemenian Empire
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Achaemenid Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (
preferred
,
C
)
empire (
H
)
Related geographic places:
capital is ....
Persepolis
.......... (deserted settlement)
..................
(World, Asia, Iran, Fārs) [7002205]
Sources and Contributors:
Achaemenian Empire..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 24 October 2017
Achaemenid..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Achaemenid Empire..........
[
VP Preferred
]
................................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
335
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
335
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
The J. Paul Getty Trust
© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
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