. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. m the Assyrian annals is, that Media wasin a state of semi-subjection to Assyria from the time of the Assyrianking Shalinanubar, about 880, until the accession of Cyaxares, 644; for the inscriptions record coustant invasions, particularlyimder Tiglath-Pileser, who, about 74t, transplanted the Syriansof Damascus to Kir, supposed to be the Cyrus 2 Kings xvi. 9), andunder Sargon, about 710, who attempted a permanent subjection dia commences ^vith Cyaxares, 634. The chief ev
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. m the Assyrian annals is, that Media wasin a state of semi-subjection to Assyria from the time of the Assyrianking Shalinanubar, about 880, until the accession of Cyaxares, 644; for the inscriptions record coustant invasions, particularlyimder Tiglath-Pileser, who, about 74t, transplanted the Syriansof Damascus to Kir, supposed to be the Cyrus 2 Kings xvi. 9), andunder Sargon, about 710, who attempted a permanent subjection dia commences ^vith Cyaxares, 634. The chief events of his reignwere—his stiuggle with the Scythians, who still held a portion of thecountry, particularly the line of Zagrus; the capture of Nineveh. ; and his war with Alyattes, king of Lydia. which was terminatedby the well-known eclipse of Thales, probably 610 Cyaxares evi-dently endeavoured to grasp the supremacy which Assyria had exercisedover Western Asia, or at all events over the northern portion of it, leav-ing the southern to Babylon. He is probably the Ahasuerus of the. Mons Bagistanus, Rock of Behistun, Ctesias furnishes uswith a list of kingspreceding Cyius, thefirst of whom, namedArbaces, would havecommenced his reignabout 875: Hero-dotus, on the otherhand, notices only four,of whom the fii*st,Deioces, beganhis 708, his successorsbeing Phraortes (who
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