Ecbatana

1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Ecbatana, the Capital City of the Kingdom of the ancient Medes, apprehended to be the same with the Modern Casbin, or else Tauris of Persia: See Casbin, Hani and Tauris. King Cambyses died here in the year of the World 3532. Parmenion, by the order of Alexander Magnus, was killed in 3725. and the alter Alexander, Hephaestion, buried here in 3728. with so much Funeral Pomp as amounted to twelve thousand Talents.