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The World ‘s Largest Empire

  Cyrus II of Persia (c.โ€‰600โ€“530 BC; Old Persian: ๐Žค๐Žข๐Žฝ๐Žข๐, romanized: Kลซruลก), commonly known as Cyrus the Great and also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all of the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly, and eventually conquered ...

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