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Ecbatana

First capital in Iranian history, seat of the Median Empire and later Achaemenid summer capital at modern Hamadan.

Dated events and their evidence

• 678 BCE mainstream
  founded as Median capital under Deioces source
• 550 BCE mainstream
  taken by Cyrus the Great; Achaemenid summer capital source
• 330 BCE mainstream
  captured by Alexander the Great source

Where

34.8064° N, 48.5161° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecbatana

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