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The Medes were an ancient Indo-European population that originated from central Asia. They became well known from destroying the Assyrian Empire and settling Northern Mesopotamia along with their Aramaic speaking Chaldean (Babylonian) allies in the 7th century BC.
Many modern Kurds identify with the Medes.