[Picture: Map showing the Anshan]
Around 653 BC, Teispes, the son of Achaemenes, seems to have led the nomadic Persians to settle in southern Iran around this time — eventually establishing the first organized Persian state in the important region of Anshan as the Elamite kingdom was permanently destroyed by the Assyrian ruler Ashurbanipal (640 BC). The Medes had come under the domination of the Scythians by the time.
Teispes took the title King of An?ān after seizing An?ān city from the Elamites, a first step that would lead to the rise of the Persian Empire.