Achaemenid Empire, 500 BC in french: provinces and languages.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Claude_Zygiel" title="User:Claude Zygiel">Claude Zygiel</a>
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Background from <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cattette" title="User:Cattette">Cattette</a> <a class="external autonumber" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Achaemenid_Empire_500_BC.png?uselang=fr">[3]</a>, details from <i>Grosser Atlas zur Weltgeschichte</i>, Westermann, Braunschweig 1985, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-14-100919-8" title="Special:BookSources/3-14-100919-8">ISBN 3-14-100919-8</a> pp. 14 to 23, languages from Colin Renfrew, <i>Archaeology and Language. The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins</i>, Cambridge University Press 1995, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-38675-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-38675-6">ISBN 0-521-38675-6</a> (see also <a class="external autonumber" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IE1500BP.png">[4]</a>).