{"slug": "ecbatana", "label": "Ecbatana", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecbatana", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q696193", "qid": "Q696193", "description": "ancient city that was the capital of the Median empire", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [-677, -323], "span_label": ["678 BCE", "324 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "medes", "label": "Medes", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "parmenion", "label": "Parmenion", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "assyria", "label": "Assyria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "persian-people", "label": "Persian people", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cimmerians", "label": "Cimmerians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ptolemy-i-soter", "label": "Ptolemy I Soter", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "herodotus", "label": "Herodotus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bactria", "label": "Bactria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "darius-iii", "label": "Darius III", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cyrus-the-great", "label": "Cyrus the Great", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -677, "year_label": "678 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "According to Herodotus, Ecbatana was chosen as the Medes' capital by Deioces, the first ruler of the Medes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510290#Events", "title": "678 BC", "revid": 1370510290, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -674, "year_label": "675 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Deioces dies after a 53-year reign that has established the kingdom of the Medes and its capital at Ecbatana (later Hamedan) in what will be northwest Persia. He is succeeded by his son Phraortes, who forms an anti-Assyrian alliance with the Cimmerians to subjugate the Persians and other Asian peoples.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510298#Middle_East", "title": "675 BC", "revid": 1370510298, "section": "Events › By place › Middle East"}}, {"year": -548, "year_label": "549 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Cyrus II (the Great) captures the Median capital of Ecbatana, conquering the nation of Media.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346605699#Persia", "title": "549 BC", "revid": 1346605699, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"year": -329, "year_label": "330 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "At Phrada, in Drangiana, Philotas, Parmenion's son and commander of the elite Macedonian companion cavalry, is implicated in an alleged plot against Alexander's life. He is condemned by the army, and executed. A secret message is sent by Alexander to Cleander, Parmenion's second in command, who obediently kills Parmenion at Ecbatana in Media for fear that he will rise up in revolt at the news of his son's death. All of Parmenion's adherents are now eliminated and men close to Alexander are promoted.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326554346#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "330 BC", "revid": 1326554346, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -329, "year_label": "330 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Before continuing his pursuit of Darius III, who has retreated into Bactria, Alexander assembles all the Persian treasure and entrusts it to Harpalus, who is to hold it at Ecbatana as chief treasurer. Parmenion is also left behind in Media to manage communications between Alexander and the rest of his rapidly growing lands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326554346#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "330 BC", "revid": 1326554346, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -328, "year_label": "329 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Crossing the Oxus, Alexander sends his general Ptolemy in pursuit of Bessus. In the meantime, Bessus is overthrown by the Sogdian Spitamenes. Bessus is captured, flogged, and sent to Ptolemy in Bactria with the hope of appeasing Alexander. In due course, Bessus is publicly executed at Ecbatana. With the death of Bessus (Artaxerxes V), Persian resistance to Alexander the Great ceases.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356261159#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "329 BC", "revid": 1356261159, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -323, "year_label": "324 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Alexander the Great spends the summer and autumn at the Median capital, Ecbatana, where his best friend, Hephaistion, dies during the autumn. Alexander indulges in extravagant mourning for his closest friend.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242939237#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "324 BC", "revid": 1242939237, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}]}