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Arsames

550 BC - 600 BC

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Arsames (Old Persian: 𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠𐎶 Aršāma, modern Persian:،آرسام، آرشام‎ Arshām, Greek: Ἀρσάμης) was the son of Ariaramnes and the grandfather of Darius I. He was traditionally claimed to have briefly been king of Persia during the Achaemenid dynasty, and to have given up the throne and declared loyalty to his relative Cyrus II of Persia before retiring to his family estate in the Persian heartland of Parsa, living there peacefully for the rest of his life, perhaps nominally exercising the duties of a "lesser king" under the authority of the "Great King". However, the claim that he or his son were ever kings is rejected by historians such as Pierre Briant. In an inscription allegedly found in Hamadan he is called "king of Persia", but the document is widely argued to be a fake, either modern or ancient. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arsames has received more than 83,479 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Arsames is the 5,306th most popular politician (down from 5,165th in 2019), the 163rd most popular biography from Iran (down from 154th in 2019) and the 90th most popular Iranian Politician.

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  • 83k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Arsames ranks 5,306 out of 15,577. Before him are Helena of Moscow, Zhao Mengfu, Wilfried Martens, Psammuthes, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, and John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland. After him are Antti Aarne, Hüma Hatun, Emperor Kōbun, Clement Greenberg, Erwig, and Gedik Ahmed Pasha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 550 BC, Arsames ranks 16. Before him are Goujian, Labashi-Marduk, Kapila, Ariston of Sparta, Fuchai, and Himilco. After him are Rhodopis, Uppalavanna, Histiaeus, Khema, Alcetas I of Macedon, and Nitocris of Babylon. Among people deceased in 600 BC, Arsames ranks 19. Before him are Ibycus, Cleisthenes of Sicyon, Sushruta, Mimnermus, Harpagus, and Philip I of Macedon. After him are Zaleucus, Leon of Sparta, Tanaquil, Hipponax, Rhodopis, and Miltiades the Elder.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Arsames ranks 163 out of 528. Before him are Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236), Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922), Sadegh Hedayat (1903), Sufyan al-Thawri (716), Vologases IV (150), and Tiridates I of Armenia (null). After him are Al-Shahrastani (1086), Al-Baydawi (1201), Al-Khazini (1077), Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (897), Ibn Babawayh (918), and Vologases VI (200).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Arsames ranks 90. Before him are Jaʻfar ibn Yahya (767), Orodes II (null), Ashraf Pahlavi (1919), Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922), Vologases IV (150), and Tiridates I of Armenia (null). After him are Vologases VI (200), Abbas Mirza (1789), Shahrokh Shah (1734), Amytis of Media (-630), Vologases III of Parthia (100), and Mir-Hossein Mousavi (1942).

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