sentences:  Medes
  
  The Medes (, Old Persian "", , "Madai") were an ancient Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran.Late 9th to early 7th centuries BC, the region of Media was bounded by the Zagros Mountains to its west, to its south by the Garrin Mountain in Lorestan Province, to its northwest by the Qaflankuh Mountains in Zanjan Province, and to its east by the Dasht-e Kavir desert.