Ecbatana

Modern day Hamadan in Iran, Ecbatan was the capital of the Median empire until Cyrus, founder of the Persian empire, made it his summer residence.

Ecbatana is mentioned only once in Scriptures (Ezr 6:2), when questions arose in the time of Darius whether his predecessor Cyrus did in fact issued an edict for the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem.

[King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives stored in the treasury at Babylon.] A scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this was written on it: Memorandum: [In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem: Let the temple be rebuilt . . .]"