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en-wikipedia-org-5482		Medes - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	8023	1076	64	The Medes /ˈmiːdz/[N 1] (Old Persian Māda-, Ancient Greek: Μῆδοι) were an ancient Iranian people[N 2] who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. In any case, it appears that after the fall of the last Median king against Cyrus the Great of the Persian Empire, Media became an important province and prized by the empires which successively dominated it (Achaemenids, Seleucids, Parthians and Sasanids). These sources have both similarities (in cultural characteristics) and differences (due to functional differences and diversity among the Median tribes).[24] The architecture of these archaeological findings, which can probably be dated to the Median period, show a link between the tradition of columned audience halls often seen in the Achaemenid Empire (for example in Persepolis) and Safavid Iran (for example in Chehel Sotoun from the 17th century AD) and what is seen in Median architecture.[24]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5482.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5482.txt