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The role of the Achaemenids and Hydarnids in the origin of the term «Armenian Arsacids» in Armenian medieval sources

Scientific Bulletin of the Izmail State University of Humanities Section «Historical sciences»
Medieval Armenian sources which refer to the kings of Greater Armenia who ruled from 331 BC to 428 AD use the general term "Armenian Arsacids." At the same time, historians, based on a much larger number of sources, distinguish at least three royal ...
Ruslan Kobzar
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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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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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Marek Jan Olbrycht, The Sacral Kingship of the Early Arsacids. Fire Cult and Kingly Glory, Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia 7, 2016, 91-106.

, 2019
Marek Jan Olbrycht, The Sacral Kingship of the Early Arsacids. Fire Cult and Kingly Glory, Anabasis.
Marek Olbrycht (6814832)
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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
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Edward Dąbrowa. Greek: a Language of the Parthian Empire [PDF]

, 2016
The special status enjoyed by Greek language in the Parthian empire was due to the role of the Greeks and the weight of the Seleucid heritage in the building by the Arsacids of an ideological community to support their new state.
Sinisi, Fabrizio, Fabrizio Sinisi
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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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Wilhelm Müseler. “The Dating and the Sequence of the Persid Frataraka Revisited” [PDF]

, 2019
The author takes into consideration the coinage of Persis, an autonomous region in southern Iran during the Seleucid rule, later a vassal kingdom under the Arsacids.
Gregoratti, Leonardo
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Arsacids, Romans, and Local Elites: Cross-Cultural Interactions of the Parthian Empire

, 2017
For almost 500 years (247 BCE–224 CE), the Arsacid kings of Parthia ruled over a vast multicultural empire, which encompassed much of central Asia and the Near East. The inhabitants of this empire included a complex patchwork of Hellenized Greek-speaking
Schlude, Jason M.
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