Rulers and Dynasties:

• Medes
  • Deioces, 728BC - 675BC
  • Phraortes (Kashtariti?), 675BC - 653BC
  • Scythian interregnum
  • Cyaxares, 625BC - 585BC
  • Astyages, 585BC - 550BC
• Achaemenids
  • Achaemenes
  • Teispes
  • Cyrus I
  • Cambyses I (Kambiz)
  • Cyrus the Great, Start of Achaemenid Empire, 559BC - 530BC
  • Kambiz II, 530BC - 522BC
  • Darius I the Great, 522BC - 486BC
  • Xerxes I (Khashyar), 486BC - 465BC
  • Artaxerxes I , 465BC - 425BC
  • Xerxes II, 425BC - 424BC (45 days)
  • Darius II, 423BC - 404BC
  • Artaxerxes II, 404BC - 359BC
  • Artaxerxes III, 359BC - 339BC
  • Arses, 338BC - 336BC
  • Darius III, 336BC - 330BC
• Hellenistic period
  • Alexander (III) the Great, 330BC - 323BC
  • Philip III (Arrhidaeus), 323BC - 317BC
  • Alexander IV, 317BC - 312BC

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