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- noun   Plural form of 
Mede . 
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The Assyrians ruled Upper Asia119 for five hundred and twenty years, and from them the Medes were the first who made revolt.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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And he answered: I know it: and I have often walked through all the ways thereof, and I have abode with Gabelus our brother, who dwelleth at Rages a city of the Medes, which is situate in the mount of
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Rages a city of the Medes, which is situate in the mount of Ecbatana.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Rages a city of the Medes, which is situate in the mount of Ecbatana.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 17: Tobias The Challoner Revision
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The western part of Iran was occupied in antiquity by the kindred people known as Medes and Persians.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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The first recorded mention of the people whom the Greeks called Medes occurs in the cuneiform inscription of Shalmaneser II, King of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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It is not certain, however, whether the Scythians or the Medes were the successful besiegers of the great Assyrian capital.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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The Assyrians ruled Upper Asia [110] for five hundred and twenty years, and from them the Medes were the first who made revolt.
The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883
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He delivers over to them some other nation, and calls the Medes, to whom He gives Babylon over, His sanctified ones, that is,
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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Calvin translates, "their waves," that is, the Medes bursting on her as impetuous waves; so Jer 51: 42.
 
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