maads

the first kingdom that ruled all of iran as a united kingdom, was the maad kingdom.
these were the western arian tribe, that by uniting with the persians and a help from the partes, took out the horrible city of NEYNAVA(flute blow) wich was the capital of the ashur kingdom, not a good place!
the leader of the maads was a judge called diaoko, wich was later on chosen by his people to be the first king of the maads. he chose his hometown, hegmatane(now called hamedan) as capital city. he was famous for:1) being the first ruling king in iran
2)he had seven great stone walls built around the capital.
after he died, his son then nephew became king, one lazier than the other.
once when his nephews son was in the castle and having another lazy day , when he was assasinated by a an arab king's called garshtasp(called by the persians becuase arabs dont have the letters: 1)g 2)g as in genre 3)p 4)ch as in church) mercaneries.
after a while garshtasp crowned himself king. he was there after called ajidehak or zahak or the dragon lord becuase of his crulety to peasents. it is said in legen that he killed to young men everyday and gave their brains to his snakes to eat.
he was also the last maad king.
((we will talk about what happened to cruel ajidehak, what became of iran and the other 2 tribes and ajidehaks children next time.))