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Ecbatana

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Ec·ba·ta·na  (k-btn-)
A city of ancient Media on the site of present-day Hamadan in western Iran. It was captured by Cyrus the Great in 549 b.c. and plundered by Alexander, Seleucus I, and Antiochus III.
Ecbatana [ɛkˈbætənə]
n
(Placename) an ancient city in Iran, on the site of modern Hamadān; capital of Media and royal residence of the Persians and Parthians


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As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm, so the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes, but travelled from Ecbatana, where the spring was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter.
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