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Ecbatana

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Ecbatana (or Agbatana)

Ancient city (now Hamadan), capital of ancient Media (northwestern Iran), traditionally founded in the 8th century BC and captured 550 BC by Cyrus the Great, King of Persia. From that time it served as a summer residence for Persian and Parthian rulers.

According to the historian Herodotus, the royal citadel was surrounded by seven walls, each painted a different colour, with the two innermost plated with gold and silver. The city was plundered by successive conquerors beginning with Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia. The site has not yet been more than partially excavated.



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As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm, so the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes, but travelled from Ecbatana, where the spring was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter.
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