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The traditional sports culture of China's ethnic minorities is a colorful aspect of China's history and heritage. One particularly interesting example is the practice of "Miao Albums" among the Miao people during the Qing Dynasty." Miao Albums" refers to
Jiaojiao Li, Zhenxin Nie
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The Mardians were an Iranian mountain tribe which inhabited many different regions of the Near East. Despite the fact that they are frequently present in the narratives of both Greek and Roman historians, they never aroused much interest among scholars ...
Gregoratti, Leonardo
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Artaxias II and the Murder of the Romans in Greater Armenia [PDF]
In 30 BC, by the order of the king of Armenia Artaxias II, all Romans in the kingdom were killed. However, this crime had virtually no effect on the reign of the new king of Armenia. A significant Roman presence in Armenia during this period is confirmed
Сергій Литовченко
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Iranian-Armenian language contact in and before the 5th century CE: An investigation into pattern replication and societal multilingualism [PDF]
This study provides new insights into the historical language contact between Classical Armenian and West Middle Iranian, specifically Parthian. Next to an up-to-date account of known lexical, morphological, and phraseological Iranian loans in Armenian ...
Meyer, Robin
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Imperial Matchmaker: The Involvement of the Roman Emperor in the Arrangement of Marriages between Client Kings [PDF]
This thesis demonstrates that the emperor Augustus (27 BC to AD 14) did encourage and instigate marriage-alliances between the families of Roman client kings, as suggested by the sources.
Dillon, Matthew P +2 more
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At the beginning of the common era, the two major imperial powers of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East were Rome and Parthia. In this book, Jake Nabel analyzes Roman-Parthian interstate politics by focusing on a group of princes from the Arsacid ...
Nabel, Jake
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The representation of women in early Christian literature: Armenian texts of the fifth century [PDF]
In recent decades there has been a growing scholarly interest in the representation of women in early Christian texts, with the works of Greek and Latin authors being the primary focus.
Zakarian, David
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Dans les pas de Damascius et des néoplatoniciens au Proche-Orient : cultes et légendes de la Damascène [PDF]
International audienceDamascius's Life of Isidoros or Philosophical History tells the journey to the Near East of the famous neoplatonist and his teacher Isidoros at the end of the fifth century of the Christian era.
Aliquot, Julien
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