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Great Media

Great Media proper noun: the larger, southern portion of ancient Media following the latter’s partition by the Macedonians, the smaller northern portion being Atropatian Media, also known as Atropatia or Atropatene.

Proper noun

Great Media

  1. (historical) The larger, southern portion of ancient Media following the latter’s partition by the Macedonians, the smaller northern portion being Atropatian Media, also known as Atropatia or Atropatene.
    • Great Media, which is a high table-land, is said by all antient writers to have had a good climate and a fertile soil; [...]1839, The Penny Cyclopædia, volume 15, London, page 54
    • The Persian empire had now reached its greatest extent, from Thrace and Cyrenaïca on the west to the Indus on the east, and from the Euxine, the Caucasus (or, rather, a little below it), the Caspian, and the Oxus and Jaxartes on the north, to Æthiopia, Arabia, and the Erythræan Sea on the south...1871, Charles Anthon, editor, A New Classical Dictionary, New York, page 632

Synonyms of Great Media

Origin of Great Media

Calque of Ancient Greek Μεγάλη Μηδία (Megálē Mēdía, literally “Great Media”), as inferred from Strabo's description of the division of Media in his Geography (11.13.1): : ἡ δὲ Μηδία δίχα διῄρηται: καλοῦσι δὲ τὴν μὲν μεγάλην, ἧς μητρόπολις τὰ Ἐκβάτανα […] hē dè Mēdía díkha diēírētai: kaloûsi dè tḕn mèn megálēn, hês mētrópolis tà Ekbátana […] Media is divided into two parts; they call the one great, whose metropolis is Ecbatana […]

Questions about Great Media

What does Great Media mean?
Great Media means the larger, southern portion of ancient Media following the latter’s partition by the Macedonians, the smaller northern portion being Atropatian Media, also known as Atropatia or Atropatene.
What part of speech is Great Media?
Great Media is a proper noun.

Words near Great Media in the dictionary

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