Cyrus the Great
600 BCE–530 BCE* · Person
Founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire; tolerant of subject peoples; freed Jews from Babylonian captivity; biblical 'anointed one'.
On these timelines: Persia and Iran, People, Master
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