Information
Name: Achaemenid Empire
Type: Polity
Nation: persia (antiquity)
Start: -599
End: -330
Achaemenid Empire: All Data
This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.
Was the ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC. It was the largest empire the world had ever seen at its time, spanning a total of 8.5 million square kilometres (3.3 million square miles) from the Balkans and Egypt in the west to Central Asia and the Indus Valley in the east. By 330 BC, the Achaemenid Empire was conquered by Alexander the Great.
