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Cambyses (Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: ; Old Persian Kambujiya or perhaps Kambaujiya) is the name of several members of the Achaemenid line of ancient Persia
Persian Empire

The 'Persian Empire' was a series of successive Iranian or Persianization empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland, and beyond in Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
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It is remarkable that W. K. Luftus found at Warka "bricks inscribed in a slightly relieved cuneiform characters of Cambyses the brother of Cyrus, a person of whom we posses no historical knowledge . This could be yet another Cambyses (Kambujiya), besides the ones listed or mentioned here.





The name Kambujiya (or perhaps Kambaujiya) of Old Persian inscriptions appears as C-n-b-n-z-y in Aramaic, Kambuzia in Assyria
Assyria

Assyria was a political state centered on the Upper Tigris river, in Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times in history....
n, Kambythet in Egyptian
Egyptian language

Egyptian is a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages language family along with the Chadic languages, Berber languages, Semitic languages, Cushitic languages and possibly Omotic languages languages....
, Kam-bu-zi-ia in Akkadian
Akkadian language

Akkadian or Assyrian-Babylonian is a Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian language, an unrelated language isolate....
, Kan-bu-zi-ia in Elamite, Kanpuziya in Susian
Susa

Susa was an ancient city of the Elamite, Persian Empire and Parthian empires of Iran, located about 250 km east of the Tigris River.The modern town of Shush, Iran is located at the site of ancient Susa....
  language and as Kamboja
Kamboja

Kamboja may refer to:*the ancient tribe of the Kambojas of the Hindukush in Iron Age India**Kambojas in South Asian literature*the Kamboja Kingdom, one of the Mahajanapadas of Iron Age India...
 in the Indian epic Mahabharata
Mahabharata

The is one of the two major Sanskrit Indian epic poetrys of History of India, the other being the '. The epic is part of the Hindu itihasa , and forms an important part of Hindu mythology....
 .






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Cambyses (Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: ; Old Persian Kambujiya or perhaps Kambaujiya) is the name of several members of the Achaemenid line of ancient Persia
Persian Empire

The 'Persian Empire' was a series of successive Iranian or Persianization empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland, and beyond in Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
  .

  • Cambyses (Kambujiya), son and successor of Teispes of Anshan
    Teispes of Anshan

    Teispes was the son of Achaemenes and a List of kings of Persia. He captured the Elamite city of Anshan and called himself "King of the City of An?an", a first step that would lead to the rise of the Persian Empire....
    , father of an earlier Cyrus and great grandfather of Cyrus the Great
    Cyrus the Great

    Cyrus the Great , , also known as Cyrus II of Persia and Cyrus the Elder, was a Persian people Shah . He was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty, an empire, perhaps the most wealthy and magnificent in history....
    . The bearers of these names (i.e Cambyses and Cyrus) were probably the earlier members of the Achaemenid line (7th C BCE) and must not be confounded with the later Achamenian rulers viz: Cambyses I or Kambujiya I and his son Cyrus I (Kurush I), who both were. in fact. the seconds of these respective names in the line of Persian kings . This Cambyses and his son Cyrus are omitted from the genealogy
    Genealogy

    Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigree of its members....
     of Xerxes
    Xerxes

    Xerxes may refer to these Persian kings:*Xerxes I of Persia, reigned 485–465 BC, aka Xerxes the Great*Xerxes II of Persia, reigned 424 BC...
    , as given in the available text of Herodotus' History; and “Diodorus, in the passage where he really names him, seems to intend the father of Cyrus the Great” . The Cambyses, however, whose sister was the ancestress, in the fourth degree, of one of the seven conspirators, must be an earlier Cambyses (king) than one whose son was contemporary with some of them . “Thus Cambyscs is wanted on chronological grounds to give the same number of steps in this line that there are in the others; and again he is wanted on historical grounds to fill out the number of kings which Darius declares there to have been ‘of his race’ before he himself mounted the throne“ . Therefore, this earlier Cambyses may be regarded as the son and successor of Teispes, and the brother of Ariaramnes and Atossa
    Atossa

    Atossa was a Queen consort of Persian Empire.She was born in 550 BCE, the daughter of Cyrus the Great and a sister of Cambyses II, whom she married....
      and great grand father of Cyrus the Great .


It is remarkable that W. K. Luftus found at Warka "bricks inscribed in a slightly relieved cuneiform characters of Cambyses the brother of Cyrus, a person of whom we posses no historical knowledge . This could be yet another Cambyses (Kambujiya), besides the ones listed or mentioned here.

  • Cambyses I of Anshan
    Cambyses I of Anshan

    Cambyses I, Old Persian: Kambujiya, 'the Elder was King of Anshan from c. 580 to 559 BC and was the father of Cyrus the Great . His name in Greek language was ?a???s??, whence the Latin Cambyses....
     (Kambujiya I)     was a son of Cyrus I, and ruled Anshan from 600 to 559 BCE. He was a Persian king of good family, to whom king Astyages
    Astyages

    Astyages ; spelled by Herodotus as Astyages; by Ctesias as Astyigas; by Diodorus as Aspadas; Akkadian language: I?tumegu), was the last king of the Medes, r....
     of Media
    Medes

    The Medes were an Ancient Iranian peoples who lived in the northwestern portions of present-day Iran. This area was known in Greek as Media or Medea ....
    , had married his daughter Mandane
    Mandane of Media

    Mandana of Media was a Princess of Medes and, later, the Queen consort of Cambyses I of Anshan and mother of Cyrus II, ruler of the Persian Empire's Achaemenid Dynasty....
    . The issue of this union was Cyrus II or Cyrus the Great
    Cyrus the Great

    Cyrus the Great , , also known as Cyrus II of Persia and Cyrus the Elder, was a Persian people Shah . He was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty, an empire, perhaps the most wealthy and magnificent in history....
     .


  • Cambyses II of Persia
    Cambyses II of Persia

    Cambyses II was the son of Cyrus the Great.When Cyrus The Great conquered Babylon in 539 BC he was employed in leading religious ceremonies, and in the Cyrus_Cylinder which contains Cyrus' proclamation to the Babylonians his name is joined to that of his father in the prayers to Marduk....
     (Kambujiya II)     was son and successor of Cyrus II (or Cyrus the Great
    Cyrus the Great

    Cyrus the Great , , also known as Cyrus II of Persia and Cyrus the Elder, was a Persian people Shah . He was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty, an empire, perhaps the most wealthy and magnificent in history....
    ) and ruled Persia from 530 to 522 BCE. He conquered Egypt
    Egypt

    Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
    . .


The name Kambujiya (or perhaps Kambaujiya) of Old Persian inscriptions appears as C-n-b-n-z-y in Aramaic, Kambuzia in Assyria
Assyria

Assyria was a political state centered on the Upper Tigris river, in Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times in history....
n, Kambythet in Egyptian
Egyptian language

Egyptian is a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages language family along with the Chadic languages, Berber languages, Semitic languages, Cushitic languages and possibly Omotic languages languages....
, Kam-bu-zi-ia in Akkadian
Akkadian language

Akkadian or Assyrian-Babylonian is a Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian language, an unrelated language isolate....
, Kan-bu-zi-ia in Elamite, Kanpuziya in Susian
Susa

Susa was an ancient city of the Elamite, Persian Empire and Parthian empires of Iran, located about 250 km east of the Tigris River.The modern town of Shush, Iran is located at the site of ancient Susa....
  language and as Kamboja
Kamboja

Kamboja may refer to:*the ancient tribe of the Kambojas of the Hindukush in Iron Age India**Kambojas in South Asian literature*the Kamboja Kingdom, one of the Mahajanapadas of Iron Age India...
 in the Indian epic Mahabharata
Mahabharata

The is one of the two major Sanskrit Indian epic poetrys of History of India, the other being the '. The epic is part of the Hindu itihasa , and forms an important part of Hindu mythology....
 . It appears to have been a very popular name among ancient Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
ians. The royal Old Persian
Persian language

name=Persian|nativename=|pronunciation=[f??r'si]|image=|caption=Farsi in Perso-Arabic script |states= Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain....
 name Kambujiya or Kambaujiya of the Achaemenid line has been linked by numerous scholars with the Sanskrit
Sanskrit

Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism, and one of the 22 official languages of India....
/Pali
Páli

P?li is a village in Gyor-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary.External links...
  ethnonym Kamboja
Kamboja

Kamboja may refer to:*the ancient tribe of the Kambojas of the Hindukush in Iron Age India**Kambojas in South Asian literature*the Kamboja Kingdom, one of the Mahajanapadas of Iron Age India...
  .