Cyaxares (Kai Khasraw)
Huwaxshtra or Kakhasraw or Cyaxares was the most powerful king of the Medes and his reign lasted from 625 to 585 BC. He was the first to bring West Asian countries under one banner and become the great power of his time. He is the king of the Medes whom the Greeks call Kai Khasraw and in France Cyaxares. He is the third king of the Medes was the son of Phraotis, the son of King Diako, the founding descendant of the Mede emperor. During the reign of Cyaxares, the power of the Medes was at its peak, so that the Kurds were more proud of Cyaxares than any other king of the Medes. His name is mentioned in the Kurdish national anthem as it is said (We are the sons of Media and Cyaxares). Mentioning him in the national anthem indicates the strength of the Median emperor during the reign of King Cyaxares.
In his book called History of Herodotus, the Greek Herodotus described how the Median power reached its peak during his reign and how he was able to destroy the most brutal Assyrian emperor with the help of the king of Babylon and expand the power of the Median emperor.
Cyaxares’s father was killed by the Assyrians. After Cyaxare's succession, he decided to attack the Assyrians and stop their brutal bloodshed in alliance with the new Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II. After a battle, he destroyed the Assyrian emperor in 612 BC. He secured Arbella Erbil and Arabkha the present Kirkuk.
To strengthen the alliance between the Medes and Babylonians, King Cyaxeras decided to give his daughter Amits to the king of Babylon.
The king of Babylon decided to build the hanging gardens of Babylon for the princess so that she would not be bothered by the heat of Babylon and not think so much about the land of Media and the Zagros Mountains, because she was used to the mountains weather.
He fought against the Lydians in the north for a while, but neither side succeeded because an eclipse occurred and they believed it was the wrath of God, so they stopped fighting and made an alliance.
The king of Lydia gives his daughter to the king of Media to strengthen their alliance.
In ancient times, it was common for two tribal chiefs or heads of state to have reconciliation after a problem they would arrange marriages between the opposing tribe members to strengthen the alliance.
Diakonov, a Russian writer and expert on Middle Eastern history, believes that the stone tomb of Qasqapan is the tomb of Kai khasraw III, king of the Medes.[1]