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Parmys (Old Persian (H)uparviyā, Elamite Uparmiya) was a Persian princess, the only daughter of Bardiya (Smerdis),[1] son of Cyrus the Great.[2] She was the granddaughter of Cyrus the Great, and Cassandane.

When Darius the Great (Darius I) seized the Achaemenid throne, he married two daughters (Atossa and Artystone) of Cyrus the Great and later with (Parmys). Parmys bore him a son called Ariomardus.

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  1. ^ Brosius, Maria (2006-04-18). The Persians. Routledge. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-134-35984-4.
  2. ^ Herodotus, Histories, book 3, chapter 88, section 3.

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