Medes

Summary

Medes is an Iranian peoples^[1]. They draws 1,198 Wikipedia views per month (iranian_peoples category, ranking #1 of 1).^[2]

Key Facts

• Medes's religion is recorded as Mithraic mysteries^[3].
• Medes's religion is recorded as Zoroastrianism^[4].
• Medes's religion is recorded as Ancient Iranian religion^[5].
• Medes is in the country of Media^[6].
• Medes's image is recorded as PLATE2BX.jpg^[7].
• Medes's instance of is recorded as Iranian peoples^[8].
• Medes's instance of is recorded as people^[9].
• Medes's capital is recorded as Ecbatana^[10].
• Medes's locator map image is recorded as Median Empire.jpg^[11].
• Medes's Commons category is recorded as Medes^[12].
• -0678-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Medes^[13].
• Medes's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0p_v9^[14].
• Medes's significant event is recorded as Medo-Persian conflict^[15].
• Medes's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Median people^[16].
• Medes's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron^[17].
• Medes's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[18].
• Medes's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[19].
• Medes's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[20].
• Medes's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Mede^[21].
• Medes's different from is recorded as Medi^[22].
• Medes's different from is recorded as Media^[23].
• Medes's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11bc5_g7cb^[24].
• Medes's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11bwd8zhy1^[25].
• Medes's language used is recorded as Median^[26].
• Medes's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as medes^[27].

Body

Personal Life

Religious affiliations include Mithraic mysteries^[3], a Greco-Roman mysteries^[28], in Ancient Rome^[29]; Zoroastrianism^[4], a religion^[30], in India^[31]; and Ancient Iranian religion^[5].

Works and Contributions

Things named for Medes include Median Kingdom^[32], a historical country^[33], founded in -0678^[34] and medism^[35].

Why It Matters

Medes draws 1,198 Wikipedia views per month (iranian_peoples category, ranking #1 of 1).^[2] They has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[36] They is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[37]

Entities named for them include Median Kingdom^[32], a historical country^[33], founded in -0678^[34] and medism^[35].