 Strabo wrote that it was "(re-)founded" by Achaemenid King Xerxes the Great (486–465 BC).It lay kilometers from Ecbatana (modern-day Hamadan), on the trunk road from Babylonia through Media to Bactria.In the Seleucid period, Nahavand was turned into a Greek "polis" with magistrates and a Seleucid governor.