. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . sian dominion;and it was not long before the Achaemenian princesdetermined to make it the capital of their wholeempire, and the chief place of their own to some writers, the change was madeby Cyrus; according to others, it had at any ratetaken place before the death of Cambyses ; but, ac-cording to the evidence of the place itself and ofthe other Achaemenian monuments, it seems mostprobable that the transfer was really the work ofDarius Hystaspis. (Darius 2; Persians.) Susa 1030 SHU SHU accordingly became the metropolis of Persia,
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . sian dominion;and it was not long before the Achaemenian princesdetermined to make it the capital of their wholeempire, and the chief place of their own to some writers, the change was madeby Cyrus; according to others, it had at any ratetaken place before the death of Cambyses ; but, ac-cording to the evidence of the place itself and ofthe other Achaemenian monuments, it seems mostprobable that the transfer was really the work ofDarius Hystaspis. (Darius 2; Persians.) Susa 1030 SHU SHU accordingly became the metropolis of Persia, andis recognized as such by ^Eschvlus, Herodotus,Ctesias, Strabo, and almost all the best court must have resided there the greater partof the year, only quitting it regularly lor Ecdatana or Persepolis in the height of summer, and per-haps sometimes for Babylon in the depth of retained its preeminence to the period of theMacedonian conquest. After this it declined. Thepreference of Alexander for Babylon caused the.
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