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  1. Member of a people of NW Iran who in the 9th
  2. century BC were tributaries to Assyria, with
  3. their capital at Ecbatana (now Hamadan).
  4. Allying themselves with Babylon, they
  5. destroyed the Assyrian capital of Nineveh 612
  6. BC, and extended their conquests into central
  7. Anatolia. In 550 BC they were overthrown by
  8. the Persians, with whom they rapidly merged.
  9.