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See also:DEIOCES (O771.6rc17s) , according to See also:Herodotus (i. 96 ff.) the first See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Medes. He narrates that, when the Medes had rebelled against the Assyrians and gained their See also:independence about 710 B.C., according to his See also:chronology (cf. Diodor. ii. 32), they lived in villages without any See also:political organization, and therefore the whole See also:country was in a See also:state of anarchy. Then Deioces, son of See also:Phraortes, an illustrious See also:man of upright See also:character, was chosen See also:judge in his See also:village, and the justness of his decisions induced the inhabitants of the other villages to throng to him. At last the Medes resolved to make an end of the intolerable state of their country by erecting a See also:kingdom, and See also:chose Deioces king. He now caused them to build a See also:great See also:capital, See also:Ecbatana, with a royal See also:palace, and introduced the ceremonial of See also:oriental courts;
he surrounded himself with a guard and no longer showed himself to the See also:people, but gave his judgments in See also:writing and controlled the people by officials and spies. He See also:united all the Median tribes, and ruled fifty-three years (c. 699-647 B.C.), though perhaps, as G. See also:Rawlinson supposed, the fifty-three years of his reign are exchanged by See also:mistake with the twenty-two years of his son Phraortes, under whom the Median conquests began.
The narration of Herodotus is only a popular tradition which derives the origin of kingship from its judicial functions, considered as its See also:principal and most beneficent aspect. We know from the See also:Assyrian See also:inscriptions that just at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time which Herodotus assigns to Deioces the See also:Medea were divided into numerous small principalities and subjected to the great Assyrian conquerors. Among these See also:petty chieftains, See also:Sargon in 715 mentions Dayukku, " See also:lieutenant of Man " (he probably was, therefore, a See also:vassal of the neighbouring king of Man in the mountains of See also:south-eastern See also:Armenia), who joined the Urartians and other enemies of See also:Assyria, but was by Sargon transported to Hamath in See also:Syria with his See also:clan." His See also:district is called " See also:bit-Dayaukki," " See also:house of Deioces," also in 713, when Sargon invaded these regions again. So it seems that the See also:dynasty, which more than See also:half a See also:century later succeeded in throwing off the Assyrian yoke and founded the Median See also:empire, was derived from this Dayukku, and that his name was thus introduced into the Median traditions, which contrary to See also:history considered him as founder of the kingdom. (ED.
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