Cyropolis
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thumb|300px|Map of the Achaemenid Empire showing the location of Cyropolis in [[Sogdiana.]]
Cyreschata (Old Persian: ), better known by its Latin name Cyropolis ( or , ), both meaning "City of Cyrus", was an ancient city founded by Cyrus the Great to mark the northeastern border of his Achaemenid Empire.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cyropolis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.