# How Cyrus the Great Built the Persian Empire - Battle of Thymbra 547 BC

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Language: en

Published: 2026-07-18T16:10:14+00:00

Source creator: HistoryMarche

Duration: 1770 seconds

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???? Sources and Citations:
Histories, Book 1 (Croesus & Cyrus). Herodotus: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2707/2707-h/2707-h.htm
The History of Cyrus the Great, by Jacob Abbott. New York. Harper and Brothers Publishers.
From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire, by Pierre Briant.
Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War by Dr Kaveh Farrokh.
Nabonidus Chronicle: https://www.livius.org/sources/content/mesopotamian-chronicles-content/abc-7-nabonidus-chronicle/
Cyropaedia. Xenophon: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2085/2085-h/2085-h.htm
‘The Campaign of Croesus Against Ephesus: Historical & Archaeological Considerations’ by Kevin Leloux. 
The History of Antiquity (1877-82) Volume V, by Max Duncker.

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