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Wikipedia: Cyrus the Great (c. 600 BC or 576 BC – December 530 BC), also known as Cyrus II or Cyrus of Persia, was the first Zoroastrian Persian emperor. He was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty. It was under his own rule that the empire embraced all previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Southwest Asia and much of Central Asia, from Egypt and the Hellespont in the west to the Indus River in the east, to create the largest empire the world had yet seen.
![["I am Cyrus the king, an Achaemenid]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/I_am_Cyrus_2C_Achaemenid_King_Pasargadae_s.jpg "\"I am Cyrus the king, an Achaemenid")
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![[Statue of Cyrus the great at Olympic Park in Sydney.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Olympic_Park_Cyrus_1_s.jpg "Statue of Cyrus the great at Olympic Park in Sydney.")
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![[Dhul-Qarnayn is thought to refer to Cyrus by some Qur'anic commentators.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/German_cyrus_relief_sketch_1_s.jpg "Dhul-Qarnayn is thought to refer to Cyrus by some Qur'anic commentators.")
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![[The four winged guardian figure, a bas]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Pasargades_winged_man_1_s.jpg "The four winged guardian figure, a bas")
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![[Portrait of Cyrus the Great.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Portrait_of_Cyrus_the_Great_1_s.jpg "Portrait of Cyrus the Great.")
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