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Tomyris

600 BC - 600 BC

Tomyris

Tomyris (; Saka: *Taumuriya; Ancient Greek: Τομυρις, romanized: Tomuris; Latin: Tomyris) also called Thomyris, Tomris, or Tomiride, was a queen of the Massagetae who ruled in the 6th century BCE. Tomyris is known only from the writings of the Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus, according to whom Tomyris led her armies to defend against an attack by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire, and defeated and killed him in 530 BC. She is not mentioned in the few other early sources covering the period, especially Ctesias. Tomyris became a fairly popular subject in European art and literature during the Renaissance. In art the usual subject was her receiving the head of Cyrus, or putting it into the blood-filled container. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tomyris has received more than 1,383,022 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Tomyris is the 216th most popular politician (down from 210th in 2019), the most popular biography from Kazakhstan and the most popular Kazakhstani Politician.

Tomyris was a queen of the Massagetae, a nomadic people of Central Asia. Her army had defeated the Persians and she is most famous for defeating Cyrus the Great in 530 BC.

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1.4M
Page Views (PV)
77.68
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
48
Languages Editions (L)
10.87
Effective Languages (L*)
2.33
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tomyris ranks 216 out of 19,576. Before her are Haakon VII of Norway, Louis XVII of France, Olav V of Norway, Xi Jinping, Kublai Khan, and Jacques Chirac. After her are Klemens von Metternich, Louis IX of France, Nicholas I of Russia, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Harun al-Rashid, and Sonia Gandhi.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

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Haakon VII of Norway
1872 - 1957
HPI: 77.77
Rank: 210
Louis XVII of France
1785 - 1795
HPI: 77.76
Rank: 211
Olav V of Norway
1903 - 1991
HPI: 77.72
Rank: 212
Xi Jinping
1953 - Present
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 213
Kublai Khan
1215 - 1294
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 214
Jacques Chirac
1932 - 2019
HPI: 77.69
Rank: 215
Tomyris
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 77.68
Rank: 216
Klemens von Metternich
1773 - 1859
HPI: 77.65
Rank: 217
Louis IX of France
1214 - 1270
HPI: 77.59
Rank: 218
Nicholas I of Russia
1796 - 1855
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 219
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
1685 - 1740
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 220
Harun al-Rashid
766 - 809
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 221
Sonia Gandhi
1946 - Present
HPI: 77.43
Rank: 222

Contemporaries

Among people born in 600 BC, Tomyris ranks 3. Before her are Cyrus the Great, and Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. After her are Esther, Lucretia, Ānanda, Servius Tullius, Peisistratos, Hippasus, Yaśodharā, Cambyses I, and Belshazzar. Among people deceased in 600 BC, Tomyris ranks 2. Before her is Laozi. After her are Draco, Habakkuk, Belshazzar, Astyages, Maya, Theano, Anacharsis, Epimenides, Phalaris, and Ibycus.

Others Born in 600 BC

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Cyrus the Great
POLITICIAN
600 BC - 530 BC
HPI: 80.01
Rank: 1
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
POLITICIAN
600 BC - 495 BC
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 2
Tomyris
POLITICIAN
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 77.68
Rank: 3
Esther
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 75.96
Rank: 4
Lucretia
NOBLEMAN
600 BC - 509 BC
HPI: 75.93
Rank: 5
Ānanda
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 6
Servius Tullius
POLITICIAN
600 BC - 535 BC
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 7
Peisistratos
POLITICIAN
600 BC - 527 BC
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 8
Hippasus
PHILOSOPHER
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 9
Yaśodharā
POLITICIAN
600 BC - Present
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 10
Cambyses I
POLITICIAN
600 BC - 559 BC
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 11
Belshazzar
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 12