Sentence examples for king cyrus from inspiring English sources
In the mid-seventh century, the dromedary was first used in warfare when the Achaemenid king, Cyrus the Great, made use of these animals while fighting with King Croesus of Lydia in 547 BC.
And, fulfilling the prophecy, the Persian king, Cyrus II, invaded.
About 540 bce it was besieged by Harpagus, general of the Persian king Cyrus II.
Captured by the generals of the Persian king Cyrus (c. 540), the city took part in several revolts against the Persians (499 494).
He concluded a treaty of defense with Astyages of Media against the Persians, who had become a growing threat since 559 under their king Cyrus II.
The Cyrus cylinder is a 6th century BC clay object inscribed with an account in cuneiform of the conquest of Babylon by the Persian king Cyrus the Great.
In the generation before 522, the Persian kings Cyrus II and Cambyses II extended their rule from the Indus River valley to the Aegean Sea.
When compounded as shāhanshāh, it denotes "king of kings," or emperor, a title adopted by the 20th-century Pahlavi dynasty in evocation of the ancient Persian "king of kings," Cyrus II the Great (reigned 559 c. 529 bc).
His method in the account of the empire is to describe each division of it not in a geographical order but rather as each was conquered by Persia by the successive Persian kings Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius.
More a track than a constructed road, the route was duplicated between 550 and 486 bc by the great Persian kings Cyrus II and Darius I in their famous Royal Road.
This happened quite suddenly after 408, with the emergence to prominence of a new Spartan, Lysander, and a new and extremely young Persian, the king's son Cyrus, sent to fight on Sparta's side.
