The Median Empire (615 BC - 549 BC)
Medes, the First (Western) Iranian Kingdom
The Medians were the first success group of Aryans nearly seven centuries BC. to form a government stretching from west to northwest and central Iran - which was the most important development in Iran's history. With the immense support of the people, Diacose succeeded in unifying several feudal governments on the Iranian plateau and formed the largest kingdom of the year 788 BC.

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The Elam Civilization
At the beginning of the third millennium BC BC, the first cultivated government known as Ilam was established in the Susiana Plain or today Khuzestan. The residents of Susa (the current Shush) used their invented Proto-Elamite alphabet. The Ilam area extended from the south and southeast toward the center of the Iran plateau. Before arriving of the Medes and Persians in the first millennium BC, the history of Iran was just Ilam history.

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Iran History Briefly
Iran's history, known as Persia, is intricately connected with the broader region of Greater Iran, encompassing an area from Anatolia to the Indus River and the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf. With origins dating back to 4000 BC, Iran boasts one of the oldest continuous civilizations in the world.

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How did the country become known as 'Iran?
The word Iran was known as "Arya' in ancient Tram and Perdin'in Old Persian language and is! derived from ancient Arya nama or the land of the Nobel people. The term 'Arya'was spelled as 'Aira and Arya in old Persian and Sanskrit. Meanwhile in Sanskrit "Ana means a lord and senior person and 'Anaka! means a respectable person. This term was spelled "Aiyana'in Old Pahlavi 'Air' in Dari Persian and "Arya' in the Aryan language.

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Iran a bridge between East and West

In ancient times the Silk Road started from Tian Huang town in China. Then it continued to Gansu Province in the north, entered the present Eastern Turkistan, crossed central Afghanistan, and continued to Samarqand and Bukhara. From Bukhara, the highway continued to Marv, Sarakhs, Nishapur, and Gorgan and reached Rey. From Rey, the road continued to Qazvin, Zanjan, Tabriz, and Yerevan and from Yerevan, it continued to Trabzon port at the Black Sea.

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