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Article: Were the Assyrians at Ecbatana?
- Article from:
- International Journal of Kurdish Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
- Author:
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The historical geography of Media of the 9th-7th century B.C. presents one of the most complicated problems in the history of the Ancient Near East. The toponyms of Media testified by Assyrian sources do not coincide with the later Median toponyms of the Achaemenid period known to Ancient Greek, Roman and Armenian geographers (1). This leaves us with very few place-names of the 9th-7th century to locate on the present-day map of the region.
Meanwhile, the existing relative topography of Media and the regions adjoining it, based on detailed descriptions of Assyrian campaigns there, need only to have some of the place-names connected with a modern map. Thus far the ...