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    The Medes were an Iron Age Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around...
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  • Italy Joseph Mede, biblical scholar Petra Mede (born 1970), Swedish comedian and television host Robert Mede William Mede Attrebus Mede, protagonist of...
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  • Medes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Medes were an ancient Iranian people. Medes also may refer to: Grace Medes, American biochemist Medeš,...
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    Darius the Mede is mentioned in the Book of Daniel as King of Babylon between Belshazzar and Cyrus the Great, but he is not known to secular history and...
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    Petra Maria Mede (pronounced [ˈpêːtra ˈmêːdɛ]; born 7 March 1970) is a Swedish comedian, dancer, actress and television presenter. Mede is known for her...
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  • Grace Medes (November 9, 1886 – December 31, 1967) was an American biochemist, who discovered tyrosinosis—a metabolic disorder today known as tyrosinemia—and...
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    Median kingdom (category Medes)
    region led to the process of unifying the Median tribes. By 612 BCE, the Medes became strong enough to overthrow the declining Assyrian empire in alliance...
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  • The Medeș is a left tributary of the river Crișul Repede in Romania. It discharges into the Crișul Repede in Săbolciu. Its length is 22 km (14 mi) and...
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  • Robert Mede or Robert a Mede (by 1475 – c. 1516), of Rye, Sussex, was an English Member of Parliament (MP). He was a Member of the Parliament of England...
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  • Nahum the Mede (Hebrew: נחום המדי, transliteration: Nahum HaMadi) was a first-century tanna of the first generation who came to the Land of Israel from...
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  • seeks out Mede, intending to kill him despite Ellen's plea to spare Mede. As Hammond attempts to force Mede into a boiling cauldron of water, Mede tries to...
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  • Joseph Mede (1586 in Berden – 1639) was an English scholar with a wide range of interests. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he became...
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    in a series of brutal internal civil wars, followed by attacks from: the Medes, Babylonians, Chaldeans, Persians, Scythians and Cimmerians. During the...
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  • Temple of the Medes is a temple constructed by Medes located in UNESCO World Heritage Site the ancient site of Bisotun city in Kermanshah province, Iran...
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    The Illes Medes (Catalan: Illes Medes, Spanish: Islas Medas) is a small and craggy group of seven islets in the Costa Brava area of the northwestern Mediterranean...
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    Ashkouri among others. The capital, Ninus or Nineveh, was taken by the Medes under Cyaxares, and some 200 years after Xenophon passed over its site,...
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  • Ranae von Meding is an LGBTQ+ activist in Ireland who also works as a singer, actress, wedding celebrant and content creator. Originally from Chucago,...
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    Cimmerians. In the 6th century BC, they were expelled from West Asia by the Medes, and retreated back into the Pontic Steppe, and were later conquered by...
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  • William Mede (by 1495-1543/48), of Rye, Sussex, was an English Member of Parliament (MP). He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Rye in 1539...
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    symbols instead of cuneiform script. Cyaxares was the third king of the Medes. He ascended to the throne in 625 BC, after his father Phraortes lost his...
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    peoples. A large part of Iran was first unified as a political entity by the Medes under Cyaxares in the 7th century BCE and reached its territorial height...
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    given to the Medes and Persians, because Belshazzar, unlike Nebuchadnezzar, has not acknowledged the sovereignty of the God of Daniel. The Medes and Persians...
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  • corresponding to the modern Bijar area in northwestern Iran. At the time of the Medes and Assyrians, the former were dominated by the latter. About 670 BC, Dusanni...
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    BC, the Armenian highlands were for some time under the hegemony of the Medes, and after that they were part of the Achaemenid Empire. Armenia was part...
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  • (1844). The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians. Robinson, Pratt. pp. 5–. L. C. Harnsberger...
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  • 43°23′51″N 5°06′09″E / 43.39755°N 5.10246°E / 43.39755; 5.10246 The La Mède refinery is a biorefinery that previously operated as a traditional fossil...
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  • of the Chinese Zhou dynasty. Astyages succeeds Cyaxares as king of the Medes. Croesus succeeds Alyattes as king of Lydia. Fall of the Kingdom of Urartu...
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    Park Parc national de Port-Cros IUCN category II (national park) Pointe Mèdes in Porquerolles Location Port-Cros, Var Nearest city Hyères Coordinates...
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  • account of the number of the Medes, he said that their guest from Trachis brought them very good news, for if the Medes obscured the light of the sun...
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  • Cuthy Mede is a Malawian artist. Cuthy Mede was born to Malawian parents in Zimbabwe in 1949. He grew up on Likoma Island in Lake Malawi. Later, he studied...
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