Capture of Ecbatana
· Ecbatana (Hamadan), Hamadan Province, Iran
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International · file Cyrus marched to and took Ecbatana, the Median capital, completing the overthrow of Astyages and gaining the Median royal treasury. The date follows the conventional dating of the decisive Median defeat; some scholarly chronological uncertainty remains.
