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Tomyris
Sign in to saveAlso known as Thomyris, Tomris, Tomiride, Tomiri, Queen Tomiri, Tamyris, Queen of the Massagetai Tomyris, Thamaris
thumb|Tomyris and the Head of Cyrus, Frankenthal porcelain, c. 1773 thumb|Queen Tomyris learns that her son Spargapises has been taken alive by Cyrus, by Jan Moy (1535–1550). upright=1.3|thumb|Tomyris Plunges the Head of the Dead Cyrus Into a Vessel of Blood by Rubens
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Tomyris was a female ruler and military leader of the Massagetae, an ethnic group in Central Asia. Born in 600 BCE, she held the position of queen regnant. Her only child was Spargapises. She is recorded as an enemy of Cyrus the Great and was succeeded by Skunkha.
Tomyris died in 600 BCE in Central Asia. She is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and appears in the work Civilization VI.
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Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Tomyris
- Royalty.image
- Tomyris-Castagno.jpg
- Royalty.caption
- Tomyris as imagined by Castagno, 15th century
- Royalty.succession
- Queen of the Massagetae
- Royalty.reign
- unknown –
- Royalty.spouse
- unnamed husband
- Royalty.issue
- Spargapises
- Royalty.religion
- Scythian religion
- Royalty.predecessor1
- unnamed husband
- Royalty.successor1
- Skunkha (?)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Massagetae
- Place of birth
- Central Asia
- Place of death
- Central Asia
- Child
- Spargapises
- Occupation
- military leader
- Position held
- queen regnant
- Image
- Tomyris-Castagno.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
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- Queen Tomyris
- date of birth
- 0600-01-01
- date of death
- 0600-01-01
- present in work
- Civilization VI
- ethnic group
- Massagetae
- replaced by
- Skunkha
- enemy
- Cyrus the Great
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Background
- War with Persia
- Death of Spargapises
- Death of Cyrus
- Aftermath
- Legacy
- In popular culture
- See also
- Footnotes
- Sources
thumb|Tomyris and the Head of Cyrus, Frankenthal porcelain, c. 1773 thumb|Queen Tomyris learns that her son Spargapises has been taken alive by Cyrus, by Jan Moy (1535–1550). upright=1.3|thumb|Tomyris Plunges the Head of the Dead Cyrus Into a Vessel of Blood by Rubens
Tomyris (; Saka: ; ; ) also called Thomyris, Tomris, or Tomiride, was a queen of the Massagetae who ruled during the 6th century BCE. Tomyris is known only from the writings of the Greek historian Herodotus, according to whom she led her armies to defend against an attack by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire, and defeated and killed him in 530 BC. She is not mentioned in the few other early sources covering the period, especially Ctesias.
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