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Place Type former nationstateempire
Other Place Typesempire
In 550 BC, the Persian prince Cyrus rebelled against the Median king and welded the Medes and Persians together. The empire flourished until 330 BC when Alexander the Great burnt its capital Persepolis to the ground.
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