Midiya
1. Mad, Media, the name of the Median state; 2. The place where the Medes lived; The Medes were of Indo-European descent and moved from the eastern Caspian Sea to the northwestern mountains of Iran in the ninth century BC. They gradually gained control over their neighbors by the end of the eighth century BC, established an independent government, and subjugated the Persian nation with the present city of Hagmatana or Hakmtan (Ecbatana) as their capital, but were defeated by Cyrus the Achaemenid in 550 BC. The word Mad later became May during the Sassanid period and then the Arabs changed it to Mah.
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