The rise of the Medes
According to Greek historians, after the fierce and bloody Assyrian invasions of the Medes, around 708 BC, the leader of one of the Diaco tribes was elected by the Union Parliament as the leader of the Medes and was tasked with forming a central government. Is placed.
This leader, Diako (Diox in Greek) By uniting the dispersed material tribes and establishing different laws, he is known as the first Median leader and he is the one who has his capital in Hamedan today. (Hengmatan, along with Hengman and the association, means a gathering place) puts.
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An Assyrian inscription mentions a man named Diako, twenty years before the date of his election as king of the Medes.. This person initiates several revolts against the Assyrian government, which require the presence of the Assyrian emperor Sargon II..
Diako and all his family members are sentenced to exile and his name no longer appears in the inscriptions.. Twenty years later, Diaco is elected king of the Medes and returns to the scene of history with the founding of the Medes as a central enemy of Assyria..
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