The history of the Medesian kingdom. VII-VI centuries. BC

According to the representation of ancient authors, separated by few modern scientists, the Media kingdom was an empire that defeated Assyria and transmitted the Achaemenids to the model of the universal empire. After the victory over Assyria, the Media kingdom included Upper Mesopotamia, Asia Minor to the river. Galis, territories of Assyria, Persia, Elam, Drangiana and Parfia. But there is another concept according to which the Median kingdom was essentially not, but there was a union of tribes, which controlled a small territory around Ekbatan. The history of the first Iranian state is customary to begin with the Achaemenid kingdom from the middle of the VI century. BC. The reconstruction of the historical geography of the Iran of the Novo-Assyrian period and the solution of a number of disputed issues of the history of Urartu, Lydia and the Kimmeri-Spey presence proposed by I. Medveda, the author allowed the author to present the history of Media as the great power of the 7th-volume of the centuries, and consider the Media kingdom the first Iranian state . In the middle of the VI century. The power in the country passed to the Achaemenid dynasty and the state received its new name, remaining essentially the Media-Persian kingdom