PHRAORTES  , the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of Fravartish, See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• MEDIA

Media . According to See also:

• HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus (i . 102) he was the son of See also:

• DEIOCES (O771.6rc17s)

Deioces, and began the Median conquests . He first subjugated the Persians, and then a See also:

• GREAT

great many other peoples of See also:

• ASIA

Asia, till at last he attacked the Assyrians, but was defeated and killed in a See also:

• BATTLE

battle, after a reign of twenty-two years (about 646-625 B.C.; but perhaps, as G . See also:

• RAWLINSON, GEORGE (1812-1902)
• RAWLINSON, RICHARD (169o-1755)
• RAWLINSON, SIR HENRY CRESWICKE (1810—1895)
• RAWLINSON, SIR ROBERT (1810—1898)

Rawlinson supposes, the fifty-three years of Deioces ought in reality to be transferred to him) . From other See also:

• SOURCES

sources we obtain no See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information whatever about Phraortes; but the data of the See also:

• ASSYRIAN

Assyrian See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions prove that See also:

• ASSUR
• ASSUR (Auth. Vera. Asshur)

Assur-banipal (see BABYLONIA AND See also:

• ASSYRIA

ASSYRIA), at least during the greater See also:

• PART

part of his reign, maintained the Assyrian supremacy in Western Asia, and that in 645 he conquered See also:

• SUSA (anc. Segusio, q.v.)
• SUSA (Biblical, Shushan)
• SUSA (Fr. Sousse)

Susa . The Medians too were subject to him as far as the See also:

• ELBURZ, or ALBURZ (from O. Pers. Hara-bere-zaili, the " High Mountain ")

Elburz and the central Iranian See also:

• DESERT

desert . When after the assassination of See also:

• SMERDIS (52I)
• SMERDIS (Pers. Bardiya; by Ctesias, Pers. 8, called Tanyoxarces; by Xenophon, Cyrop. viii. 7. 11, who takes the name from Ctesias, Tanaoxares; by Justin i. 9, Mergis; in Aeschylus, Pers. 774, Mardos)

Smerdis all the Iranian tribes, the Babylonians and the Armenians rebelled against See also:

• DARIUS (Pers. Darayavaush; Old Test. Daryavesh)

Darius and the See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian See also:

• RULE

rule, "a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of the name of Fravartish (i.e . Phraortes), a Mede, rebelled in Media and spoke to the See also:

• PEOPLE

people thus: I am Khshathrita, of the See also:

• FAMILY

family of Uvakhshatra (See also:

• CYAXARES (Pers. Uvakhshatra)

Cyaxares)." He reigned for a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, but was defeated by Hydarnes, and afterwards by Darius himself, taken prisoner in Rhagae (Rai), and executed in See also:

• ECBATANA (Agbatana in Aeschylus, Hangmatana in Old Persian, written Agamtanu by Nabonidos, and Agamatanu at Behistun, mod. Hamadan)

Ecbatana (520 B.C.; see inscription of Darius at See also:

• BEHISTUN

Behistun) . (ED .