Ecbatana (irn)

Ecbatana

Ecbatana ranks 3,705th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Vyazma, Trappes, and Manhattan Beach, California. Memorable people born in Ecbatana include Cambyses II, Astyages, and Cyaxares. Memorable people who died in Ecbatana include Hephaestion, Bessus, and Parmenion. Ecbatana has been the birth place of many politicians and the death place of many military personnels, and politicians. Ecbatana is located in Iran.

Ecbatana was an ancient city, the capital of the Median kingdom, and the first capital in Iranian history. It later became the summer capital of the Achaemenid and Parthian empires. It was also an important city during the Seleucid and Sasanian empires. It is believed that Ecbatana is located in the Zagros Mountains, the east of central Mesopotamia, on Hagmatana Hill. Ecbatana's strategic location and resources probably made it a popular site even before the 1st millennium BC. Along with Athens in Greece, Rome in Italy and Susa in Khuzestan, Ecbatana is one of the few ancient cities in the world that is still alive and important, representing the current-day Hamadan. Read more on Wikipedia