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The Achaemenids ended Babylonian rule in Lebanon when Cyrus, founder of the Persian Empire, captured Babylon in 539-38 BC and Phoenicia and its neighbors passed into Persian hands.[1] Cambyses (529-22 BC), Cyrus's son and successor, continued his father's policy of conquest and in 529 BC became suzerain of Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. The Phoenician navy supported Persia during the Greco-Persian War (490-49 BC). But when the Phoenicians were overburdened with heavy tributes imposed by the successors of Darius I (521-485 BC), revolts and rebellions resumed in the Lebanese coastal cities.
The Persian Empire eventually fell to Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia.