== Reign == Astyages succeeded his father in 585 BCE, following the Battle of Halys, which ended a five-year war between the Lydians and the Medes. He inherited a large empire, ruled in alliance with his two brothers-in-law, Croesus of Lydia and Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, whose wife, Amytis, Astyages` sister, was the queen for whom Nebuchadnezzar....
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the last king of the Median empire (reigned 585–550 ). According to Herodotus, the Achaemenian Cyrus the Great was Astyages` grandson through his ... [4 related articles]
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