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  2. Cyrus the Great - Wikipedia

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    Standard of Cyrus the Great ( Derafsh Shahbaz ), founder of the Achaemenid Empire, featuring the Shahbaz (see List of Iranian flags) Cyrus II of Persia ( Old Persian: 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 Kūruš; c. 600–530 BC ), [b] commonly known as Cyrus the Great, [6] was the founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. [7] Hailing from Persis, he brought ...

  3. Cyrus the Great in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Cyrus the Great was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire and king of Persia from 559 to 530 BC. He is venerated in the Tanakh as Cyrus the Messiah for conquering Babylon and liberating the Jews from captivity . According to the Bible, Cyrus the Great, king of the Achaemenid Empire, was the monarch who ended the Babylonian captivity.

  4. Cyrus Broacha - Wikipedia

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    Broacha in 2010 at a press conference for Golmaal 3. Born. ( 1969-08-07) 7 August 1969 (age 54) Bombay, Maharashtra, India. Spouse. Ayesha Broacha. Cyrus Broacha is an Indian anchor, theatre personality, comedian, political satirist, columnist, podcaster and author. [1] He is best known for his show Bakra on MTV India and The Week That Wasn't ...

  5. Return to Zion - Wikipedia

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    The return to Zion ( Hebrew: שִׁיבָת צִיּוֹן or שבי ציון, Shivat Tzion or Shavei Tzion, lit. ' Zion returnees') is an event recorded in Ezra–Nehemiah of the Hebrew Bible, in which the Jews of the Kingdom of Judah —subjugated by the Neo-Babylonian Empire —were freed from the Babylonian captivity following the Persian ...

  6. Edict of Cyrus - Wikipedia

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    The Edict of Cyrus refers to a proclamation by Cyrus the Great, the founding king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, in 539 BCE. It was issued after the Persians conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire upon the fall of Babylon, and is mentioned in the Tanakh, which claims that it authorized and encouraged the return to Zion and the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem (i.e., the Second Temple).

  7. IVM Podcasts - Wikipedia

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    IVM (Indus Vox Media) Podcasts is an Indian multi-lingual podcast network founded in 2015 [1] that hosts a wide variety of podcasts, including Cyrus Says, featuring Cyrus Broacha. IVM also featured celebrity Abhishek Bachchan on a football podcast. Also, Shashi Kapoor 's son Kunal Kapoor and his son Zahan Kapoor had been a part of a podcast on ...

  8. Cyropaedia - Wikipedia

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    Cyropaedia. Xenophon 's Cyropaedia, 1803 English edition. [1] The Cyropaedia, sometimes spelled Cyropedia, is a partly fictional biography [2] of Cyrus the Great, the founder of Persia's Achaemenid Empire. It was written around 370 BC by Xenophon, the Athenian -born soldier, historian, and student of Socrates.

  9. Cyrus Cylinder - Wikipedia

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    The Cyrus Cylinder is a barrel-shaped cylinder of baked clay measuring 22.5 centimetres (8.9 in) by 10 centimetres (3.9 in) at its maximum diameter. [1] It was created in several stages around a cone-shaped core of clay within which there are large grey stone inclusions.