Accession at Pasargadae
· Pasargadae, Fars Province, Iran
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International · file Following Cambyses I's death, Cyrus inherited the Persian throne at Pasargadae, then a vassal polity under Median overlordship. The source dates his succession to 559 BC; the quoted sentence directly places the inherited throne at Pasargadae.
