Was Deioces a Kurdish?
Deioces Successor Phraortes Died 675 BC Religion Old Iranian religion Who was the first king of Medes? Deioces, (flourished late 8th and early 7th centuries bc), petty Median chieftain subject to the kingdom of Mannai in modern Iranian Azerbaijan; later tradition made him the founder of the Median empire. According to the 5th-century-bc Greek historian…