IDA, a land and a city, part of Inner Zamua, located in the area of the southwest shore of Lake…

ḪARZIANU, a city and a district in Media, mentioned in the Assyrian texts of the time of Sargon II. In…

PHRAORTES (from the Old Iranian Fravartish), the second king of the Median dynasty. All information about him is from Herodotus….

MEDIA, ancient population region and kingdom in northwestern Iran. The name is attested as Gk. Mēdía, OPers. Māda (Kent, Old…

ḪUDIMIRI, a peripheral district and city of the same name in Elam, mentioned in the Assyrian sources only during the…

ḪARḪAR, a land and a city at the western border of Media. It was taken several times by the Assyrian…

LUKONIN, Vladimir Grigor’evich (b. Leningrad, 21 January 1932; d. Leningrad, 10 September 1984, FIGURE 1), outstanding Russian scholar in the…