We will talk about the rulers of the Achaemenid Empire, the largest empire in the world, which came out of a state administration under the Med Kingdom, which is thought to be the ancestor of the Kurdish nation.
In the History of Herodotus, Cyrus was the son of Mandana, the daughter of Astyages, King of Med, and Kambyses, King of Anshan. His grandfather was King Cyrus I of Anshan and his father Teispes' father was Acheamenes. As expected, the person who gave the name to the empire is the great grandfather Acheamenes.
Teispes captured Anshan from the vassal state under the Neo-Assyrian Empire, creating a kingdom. Thanks to the marriage of Cyrus' father, Kambyses I, with the Kingdom of Medes, the Persians were also entitled to the Kingdom of Medes.
The mother of Medli Mandana was the Lydian Princess Aryenis, who was the sister of the Lydian King Kroisos. With the ties coming from this marriage, Cyrus seized the Lydian Kingdom and made King Kroisos, his grandmother's brother, his advisor.
List of Sovereigns
King Queen Queen Mother
1. Acheamenes
2. Teispes
3.Cyrus I Parsumas
4. Cambyses I Mandana
5. Cyrus the Great II Cassandane
6. Cambyses II Atossa I
7. (Bardiya)Smerdis Atossa I
8. Darius the Great Atossa I
9. Xerxes I Amestris Atossa I
10. Artaxerxes I Damaspia Amestris
11. Xerxes II Damaspia
12. Sogdianus (Alogyne of Babylon)
13.Darius II Parysatis (Cosmartidene of Babylon)
14.Artaxerxes II Stateira I/Atossa II Parysatis
15.Artaxerxes III Atossa II
16. Artaxerxes IV Atossa II
17. Darius III Stateira II Sisygambis
18. Aleksandros III Roxana Olympias of Epurus
19. Aleksandros Roxana
*Alexandros 3 is the throne name of Alexander the Great.
*The names in parentheses are the names of the concubine mothers who are not officially announced but we prefer to write because we have information.
*Since Xerxes 1 of Achemenid remained on the throne for 45 days and was killed, the name of his queen is not available in the records we have.
*As Sogdianus remained on the throne for 6 months and was killed, the name of his queen is not available in current records.
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