Before revision: The empire, founded by Cyrus the Great, would include Macedonia, Thrace and the western Black sea coast (modern day southeastern and eastern Bulgaria), Egypt, Anatolia, the Phoenician lands, the Levant, and many other basin regions of the Mediterranean later on.The Oxford Classical Dictionary by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth,,"page 1515,"The Thracians were subdued by the Persians by 516"Joseph Roisman, Ian Worthington A Companion to Ancient Macedonia pp.
After revision: The empire, founded by Cyrus the Great, would include Macedonia, Thrace and the western Black Sea coast (modern day southeastern and eastern Bulgaria), Egypt, Anatolia, the Phoenician lands, the Levant, and many other basin regions of the Mediterranean later on.The Oxford Classical Dictionary by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth,,"page 1515,"The Thracians were subdued by the Persians by 516"Joseph Roisman, Ian Worthington A Companion to Ancient Macedonia pp.