Ruler · 600 – 530 BCE

Cyrus the Great

Lived 600 – 530 BCE; monarch, military leader. King of Kings of Achaemenid Empire, 559 BCE – 530 BCE; also in the line of Lydia and Median kingdom. The atlas files them under Median kingdom.

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Lived: 600 BCE – 530 BCE; 70 years
In office: 29 years; one reign
Lines: 3; states
Left it: died in battle; Wikidata's manner of death

King of Kings

Achaemenid Empire · the 1st of 11 dated reigns · 559 BCE – 330 BCE

Cyrus the Great559 BCE – 530 BCE

Cambyses II530 BCE – 522 BCE

Bardiya522 BCE

Darius the Great522 BCE – 486 BCE

7 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 559 BCE – 530 BCE · 29 years · came to it aged 41

Left it: died in battleWikidata's manner of death: death in battle

Also in the line of Lydia (5th of 5) and Median kingdom.

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Wikidata Q8423 (CC0) · the reigns from Wikidata's P39 terms, the rulers' own articles read by grammar (sentences quoted above, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Kokkonen & Sundell where they code the line · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.