Hangmatana

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Hangmatana is the Old Persian name for Ecbatana, the ancient capital city of the Median Empire in what is now western Iran.

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Label Occurrences
Hangmatana canonical 2

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Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient city
former capital
historical place
associatedWithLanguage Old Persian
associatedWithPeople Medes
capitalOf Median Empire
correspondsTo Ecbatana
culturalRegion ancient Iranian world
governedBy Median kings
hasHistoricalSignificance major political and administrative center of the Median Empire
hasNameIn Old Persian
historicalRole capital city of the Medes
locatedIn Media
ancient Near East
locatedInPresentDay Iran
locatedInRegion western Iran
mentionedAs capital of Media in Achaemenid-period sources
modernCountry Islamic Republic of Iran
linked to: Iran
OldPersianNameOf Ecbatana
partOf Median Empire
pre-IslamicSite true
predecessorOf Ecbatana (later forms of the name)
linked to: Ecbatana
region Zagros Mountains area
linked to: Zagros Mountains
relatedToponym Ecbatana
Hamadan
siteType urban settlement
successorPoliticalEntity Achaemenid Empire
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE
usedIn Old Persian inscriptions

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ecbatana oldPersianName Hangmatana
Ekbátana hasAlternativeName Hangmatana