Apr 17

The Day When the Assyrians Destroyed the City of Susa (Shoosh)

The Apadana palace in Susa and the Apadana palace at Persepolis In April 693 BC (in most of the ancient history books: April 17th), before founding a united government in Iran by Cyrus, the army of Assurbanipal (the ruler of areas in the Eastern Mediterranean, with his capital being Nineveh – Mosul – situated in present day Iraq) conquered Susa (Shoosh) and completely destroyed it. Some decades later, the government of Ecbatana = Ecbatan = Hamedan (Iranian Mada= Medes = Media), with the help of Babylon government (its capital being south of present day Iraq), overthrew the tyrant Assyrian government, which had turned into an empire, and wiped it out of the Earth. Hamedan government then transferred some Iranian groups of people (of the Mada = Medes tribe) to Assyria and made them settle there in order to prevent revival of that tyrannous government. The Kurds of Iraq, Turkey and Syria are descendents of those Medians, who have preserved their culture up to the present day.          Translation by Rowshan Lohrasbpour