Media (region) (irn)

Media (region)

Media (region) ranks 7,254th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Qi County, Kaifeng, Xingyang, and Horn, Austria. Memorable people born in Media (region) include Datis and Amytis of Media. Memorable people who died in Media (region) include Bahram V. Media (region) has been the birth place of many military personnels and politicians and the death place of many politicians. Media (region) is located in Iran.

Media is a region of north-western Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Medes. During the Achaemenid period, it comprised present-day Iranian Azerbaijan, Iranian Kurdistan and western Tabaristan. As a satrapy under Achaemenid rule, it would eventually encompass a wider region, stretching to southern Dagestan in the north. However, after the wars of Alexander the Great, the northern parts were separated due to the Partition of Babylon and became known as Atropatene, while the remaining region became known as Lesser Media. Read more on Wikipedia