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The Medes were an Iron Age Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, they occupied the mounta
Artistic representation of a Median man
Excavation from ancient Ecbatana, Hamadan, Iran
The Apadana Palace, 5th century BCE Achaemenid bas-relief shows a Median soldier behind a Persian soldier, in Persepolis, Iran
Stone relief of a Median man
Media (region)
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Media is an Iron Age region of northwestern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Medes. During the Achaemenid period, it comprised present-day Iranian Azerbaijan, Ir
Medes
…The Medes were an Iron Age Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, they occupied the mountainous region of northwestern Iran and the northeastern and eastern…
Brue, Adrien Hubert, Asie Mineure, Armenie, Syrie, Mesopotamie, Caucase. 1839.
Medes (region)
Horseman in "Median dress". Achaemenid art, 6th-4th century BC. British Museum.