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PHRAORTES , the See also:Greek See also:form of Fravartish, 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 See also:Media. According to See also:Herodotus (i. 102) he was the son of See also:Deioces, and began the Median conquests. He first subjugated the Persians, and then a See also:great many other peoples of See also:Asia, till at last he attacked the Assyrians, but was defeated and killed in a See also:battle, after a reign of twenty-two years (about 646-625 B.C.; but perhaps, as G. See also:Rawlinson supposes, the fifty-three years of Deioces ought in reality to be transferred to him). From other See also:sources we obtain no See also:information whatever about Phraortes; but the data of the See also:Assyrian See also:inscriptions prove that See also:Assur-banipal (see BABYLONIA AND See also:ASSYRIA), at least during the greater See also:part of his reign, maintained the Assyrian supremacy in Western Asia, and that in 645 he conquered See also:Susa. The Medians too were subject to him as far as the See also:Elburz and the central Iranian See also:desert.
When after the assassination of See also:Smerdis all the Iranian tribes, the Babylonians and the Armenians rebelled against See also:Darius and the See also:Persian See also:rule, "a See also:man of the name of Fravartish (i.e. Phraortes), a Mede, rebelled in Media and spoke to the See also:people thus: I am Khshathrita, of the See also:family of Uvakhshatra (See also:Cyaxares)." He reigned for a See also:short 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, but was defeated by Hydarnes, and afterwards by Darius himself, taken prisoner in Rhagae (Rai), and executed in See also:Ecbatana (520 B.C.; see inscription of Darius at See also:Behistun). (ED.
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