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    Ecbatana's strategic location and resources probably made it a popular site even before the 1st millennium BC. Along with Athens in Greece , Rome in Italy and Susa in Khuzestan , Ecbatana is one of the few ancient cities in the world that is still alive and important, representing the current-day Hamadan .

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    Along with Athens in Greece, Rome in Italy and Susa in Khuzestan, Ecbatana is one of the few ancient cities in the world that is still alive and important, representing the current-day Hamadan. Ecbatana was an ancient city, which was first the capital of the Median Empire in western Iran, and later became the summer capital of the Achaemenid ...

  3. Dec 15, 1997 · Ecbatana (48°31’ E, 34°48’ N; alt. 1,800 m) is in the Zagros mountains of central-west Persia at the base of the eastern slope of the Alvand range (the classical Mount Orontes; Diodorus Siculus, 2.13.7; Polybius, 10.27; “Iasonius mons” of Ammianus Marcellinus, 23.6.39). The city controls the major east-west route through the central ...

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  5. The Book of Tobit (/ ˈ t oʊ b ɪ t /), also known as the Book of Tobias, is a 3rd or early 2nd century BC work describing how God tests the faithful, responds to prayers, and protects the covenant community (i.e., the Israelites).

  6. Ecbatana (ĕkbăt´ənə, ĕkbətä´nə), capital of ancient Media, later the summer residence of Achaemenid and Parthian kings, beautifully situated at the foot of Mt. Elvend and NE of Behistun. In 549 BC it was captured by Cyrus the Great. It possessed a royal treasury and was plundered in turn by Alexander, Seleucus, and Antiochus III.

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