Group
Achaemenid Empire
Calling themselves the Parsa after their original Aryan tribal name Parsua, Persians had settled in a land which they named Parsua, bounded on the west by the Tigris River and on the south by the Persian Gulf.
This became their heartland for the duration of the Achaemenid Empire.
It is from this region that eventually Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II of Persia) will advance to defeat the Median, the Lydian, and the Babylonian Empires, opening the way for subsequent conquests into Egypt and Asia minor.
Member Cities
- Anshan Fars Iran Capital
- Babylon Babil Iraq Location
- Behistun Inscription Kermanshah Iran Location
- Byblos > Jubayl Mont-Liban Lebanon Location
- Cnidus > Knidos Turkey Location
- Colophon Izmir Turkey Location
- Cyrene Libya Location
- Cyzicus > Erdek Balikesir Turkey Location
- Damascus > Dimashq Dimashq Syria Location
- Dhiban `Amman Jordan Location
- Ecbatana > Hamadan Hamadan Iran Location
- Ephesus > Ephesos Turkey Location
- Galati Galati Romania Location
- Halicarnassus Turkey Location
- Hecatompylos Iran Location
- Jerusalem > Yerushalayim Israel Israel Location
- Lesbos (Lésvos) Island Lesvos Greece Location
- Lâpseki > Lampsacus Canakkale Turkey Location
- Miletus Turkey Location
- Paphos > Nèa Páfos Paphos Cyprus Location
- Pasargadae Iran Location
- Persepolis Fars Iran Location
- Peshawar North-West Frontier Pakistan Location
- Phocaea > Panaz Tepe Turkey Location
- Priene Turkey Location
- Rabbah > 'Amman `Amman Jordan Location
- Rostov-na-Donu Rostovskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Sa al-Hajar > Säis Al-Gharbiyah Egypt Location
- Samarkand Samarkand Uzbekistan Location
- Sardis Manisa Turkey Location
- Sidon > Sayda Liban-Sud Lebanon Location
- Sigeum Turkey Location
- Sinop > Sinope Sinop Turkey Location
- Sparta > Spárti Lakonia Greece Location
- Susa Iran Location
- Syrdarya Syrdarya Uzbekistan Location
- Söke > Magnesia ad Maeandrum Aydin Turkey Location
- Tarsus Icel Turkey Location
- Tyre > Sur Liban-Sud Lebanon Location
- Vathí Samos Greece Location
- Velia > Elea Campania Italy Location
- Xanthos Turkey Location
- Yerevan Yerevan Armenia Location
- Ávdhira > Abdera Greece Location