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Iron Age countries in Europe

  • Achaemenid EmpireIn 550 BC, Cyrus the Great defeated the Median king Astyages and captured Ecbatana. This single event marked the birth of an empire that would stretch from…
  • Bosporan KingdomThe year 540 BC marks the founding of Phanagoria, a colony established by settlers from Teos on the eastern shore of the Cimmerian Bosporus.