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Pap Arsacid’s foreign policy

JOURNAL FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES, 2022
The article presents the historical period of the foreign policy of the reign of Pap, which is one of the most interesting and significant periods of Armenian history. Pap came to Great Armenia in the conditions of a difficult political situation, when the Persians had captured and arrested the Armenian king Arshak II, the country was destroyed by ...
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Legendary genealogies of Byzantine Emperors and their families [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2004
Theoretically, the Byzantine Emperor was, just like in the times of the Roman Empire, chosen on the basis of his personal qualities and merits — by the grace of God, of course.
Krsmanović Bojana T., Radošević Ninoslava M.   +1 more
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The Depiction of the Arsacid Dynasty in Medieval Armenian Historiography

The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium, 2021
The Arsacid, or Parthian, dynasty was founded in the 250s bce, detaching large territories from the Seleucid Kingdom which had been formed after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
Azat Bozoyan
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Arsacid Dynastic Marriages

Electrum, 2018
Dynastic marriages in the Hellenistic world were an important diplomatic tool that provided distinct political benefi ts to one or both of the parties involved. The Parthian rulers from the Arsacid dynasty also engaged in such unions with other ruling houses.
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Heroisation or divinisation of men? Some remarks on the Greek interpretation of the ancient Iranian cults of the frauuaši

Mythos
The aim of this article is to reappraise the features of the ancient Iranian cults for men to highlight the main differences with the Greek ones. For instance, authors such as Herodotus or Theopompus, gave interesting insights in the liturgies and the ...
Lorenzo Paoletti
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Żydzi pod rządami Sasanidów [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2012
The situation of Jews under the rule of Sasanians differed considerably to the situation in times of Arsacids, who looked kindly on Jewish society. The main reason for that were different aims of Persian policy, which didn’t need such a big support of ...
Jerzy Ciecieląg
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Qaryat al‐Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 136-154, November 2024.
Abstract Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim (‘the City of [the god] Kahl’) is the Ancient South Arabian name of the modern site of Qaryat al‐Fāw. This compound refers to the tutelary deity of the city, in this case, a god called Kahl. However, the identity of this Kahl is obscure.
Juan de Lara
wiley   +1 more source

On the Issue of the Parthian Pahlavs' Socio-Political Nature

Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti
The role of the high aristocracy, the so-called pahlavs, is undeniable in the history of the Parthian state. In the second half of III century BC the assistance of the pahlavs to the Arsacid dynasty considerably contributed to the establishment of the ...
Arthur Melikyan
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The Hypothesis of the Arsacids’ Descent from the Achaemenids: Myth or Reality?

Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti
In the 40s of the last century, J. Wolski proposed a thesis, still dominant in historiography, arguing that the story of Arrian which reached us thanks to his work “Parthica” that the Arsacid dynasty, the founder of Parthian state, descended from the ...
Arthur Melikyan
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Giulio Maresca. “Hydraulic Infrastructures in South-Western Iran during the Sasanian Period: some Archaeological Remarks”

Abstracta iranica, 2020
Two distinctive features of Sasanian bridges are their designation as weir-bridges and their function in the facilitation of irrigation. This has often been used to emphasise a specific Sasanian administrative centralisation.
D. Rossi
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