Medes (other)
The Medes were an ancient Iranian people. Medes also may refer to: * Grace Medes, American biochemist * Medeš, the Slovak name for the Hungarian town of Medgyesegyháza * Medes Islands, in the Mediterranean Sea * Medeș River, in Romania * MEDes, a Master of European Design See also

* Mead (other) * Meade (other) * Meades (other) * Mede (other) {{disambiguation, surname ...
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Medes
The Medes (Old Persian: ; Akkadian: , ; Ancient Greek: ; Latin: ) were an ancient Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, they occupied the mountainous region of northwestern Iran and the northeastern and eastern region of Mesopotamia located in the region of Hamadan (Ecbatana). Their consolidation in Iran is believed to have occurred during the 8th century BC. In the 7th century BC, all of western Iran and some other territories were under Median rule, but their precise geographic extent remains unknown. Although they are generally recognized as having an important place in the history of the ancient Near East, the Medes have left no written source to reconstruct their history, which is known only from foreign sources such as the Assyrians, Babylonians, Armenians and Greeks, as well as a few Iranian archaeological sites, which are believed to have been occupied ...
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