Ecbatane
Ecbatane is an ancient city of Iran, capital of the Médie, towards the center, with the foot of the mount Oronte (Elvend), in the south-west of the Caspian Sea and in the North-East of Babylon, had 250 stages of circuit and was surrounded by 7 walls rising the ones above the others. One admired there a splendid temple of Mithra or Sun. It was founded with by Déjocès.
In 561, this city, where Astyage reigned then, fell to the capacity from Cyrus, and it was soon nothing any more but one secondary capital. The Persian kings made their residence of summer of it.
In 330, Alexandre Large the seizes the city and of the treasure that Darius kept there after the battles of Gaugamèles (or battles of Arbèles). It is at the time of its stay in this city that it makes carry out Bessos and Parménion. Seven years later, it is in this same city, with the return of the campaigns in India which Héphaestion dies, probably victim of the Typhoid fever.
The king séleucide Antiochos IV remelts the city under the name of Épiphaneia with.
It is current the Hamadan.
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