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Cyrus the Great:
(600?-530 BC), king of Persia (550-530 BC). Cyrus was an able and merciful ruler. Significant among his deeds was his granting of permission to the Jews to return from their exile in Babylon to their native Israel to rebuild the Temple of Solomon.
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  • Cyrus the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Cyrus the Great (Old Persian: , Kūruš, modern Persian: کوروش بزرگ, Kurosh-e Buzurg or کوروش کبیر Kurosh-e Kabeer (c. 590 BC or 576 — August 529 BC or 530 BC ...

  • Cyrus The Great - Home

    Cyrus the Great (580-529 BC) was the first Achaemenid Emperor. He founded Persia by uniting the two original Iranian Tribes- the Medes and the Persians., Cyrus the Great ( 600?-530 ...

  • History of Persia: Cyrus the Great

    Website dedicated to Cyrus I who was the first Achaemenian king of ancient Persia. The site shows Cyrus' Bas-relief in Sydney Australia

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