What was the name of Cyrus the Great’s capital city in ancient Persia?

Pasargadae was the capital city founded by Cyrus the Great in ancient Persia.

The city stood in the modern Fars province of Iran, near the plain where Cyrus defeated the Median king Astyages in the sixth century BCE. Cyrus developed Pasargadae as a royal center of the early Achaemenid Empire, with palaces, gardens, and a fortified terrace.

The site is also associated with the tomb traditionally identified as Cyrus’s burial monument. Pasargadae and Persepolis are sometimes confused because both were royal centers in Fars, but they served different historical phases. Pasargadae was closely connected with Cyrus, while Persepolis was founded later by Darius I and became the empire’s principal ceremonial showcase.