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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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