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περιστέλλοντας, ‘attending to this (town), &c.’; Deioces is described as carrying out a kind of συνοίκισις.

Ἀγβάτανα is usually identified with Hamadan, ‘where the passes of Mount Zagros emerge, uniting Iran to the basins of the Euphrates and Tigris’ (Maspero, iii. 326); this was certainly the later Ecbatana. Sir H. Rawlinson's view that the Ecbatana of H. lay to the north-east in Media Atropatene (Rawlinson ad loc.) has not been generally adopted. The name (Pers. Hangmatána) means ‘place of gathering’.

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