Touraj Daryaee. « If these Walls Could Speak. The Barrier of Alexander, Wall of Darband and Other Defensive Moats » [PDF]
Abstracta Iranica, 2018 Synthese de nos connaissances a propos des murs de defenses renforces par des forts que les Sassanides ont eriges a des endroits vulnerables de leurs frontieres. L’auteur commente quatre murs de defense : 1) celui du Gurgān (souvent citee comme ‘la barriere d’Alexandre’) qui part de la mer Caspienne a travers la steppe vers les montagnes a l’est sur ...
Gyselen, Rika
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The Iron Gate and its environs in the Hellenistic period. Preliminary report for archaeological research in the Baysun District (South Uzbekistan), Season 2019 [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2022 is report summarizes the starting points, methods and results of the archaeological research of the Czech-Uzbek team investigating the Hellenistic selements in the vicinity of Darband, in the upper reaches of the Sherabad Darya, in the Baysun District ...
Ladislav Stančo +8 more
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Native and Traditional Rainwater Harvesting Systems in Balochistan of Iran [PDF]
Dānishhā-yi būmī-i Īrān, 2019 The residents of the Balochistan region have been using and controlling rain and flood water from remote distances with simple methods, and thusthey have valuable indigenous experience and knowledge.
Habibollah Khoobfekrbarabadi +2 more
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Military Architecture and the Four-Spāhbed System for Defense of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE) [PDF]
, 2021 This article examines Sasanian military architecture with respect to its integration with the four-region Spāhbed system (Ādurbādagān-Spāhbed, Xwarāsān-Spāhbed, Xwarbārān-Spāhbed and Nēmrōz-Spāhbed) for defending the empire.
FARROKH, Kaveh +5 more
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Towards an understanding of the Assyrian Empire’s defence strategies in the east A case study from the Peshdar Plain (Dinka Settlement Complex and Gawr Miran) [PDF]
, 2020 The Assyrians actively engaged themselves in construction in the heartland and in the numerous provinces of the Empire. Textual sources (especially royal inscriptions and correspondence), as well as archaeological excavations, mention and sometimes ...
Hasegawa, Shuichi +2 more
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Reforms of Sasanian king Khusro I and the northern bank of the Araxes – Arrān (Caucasus Albania) [PDF]
, 2023 The article considers the Sasanian king Khusro I Anushirwan’s reforms to improve the empire’s military and administrative architecture in the northwestern region of Ērānšahr, by creating the kust ī Ādurbādagān.
KHALIFA-ZADEH, Mahir +3 more
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In the shadow of the Wall. Hellenistic settlement in the Baysun and Kugitang piedmonts [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2021 This article brings an up -to -date evaluation of the archaeological research in the core of the Bactro -Sogdian borderlands, i.e., in the vicinity of the Darband Wall, Baysun District, southern Uzbekistan, including the most recent results of the ...
Ladislav Stančo
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Of highland-lowland borderlands: local societies and foreign power in the Zagros-Mesopotamian interface [PDF]
, 2016 Narratives of civilization are spun from the juxtaposition of a civilized self with that of a barbarous other. Such an opposition is never more easily constructed than from the distinctiveness of lowland and mountain topographies, environments, and life ...
Casana, Jesse, Glatz, Claudia
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, 2012 The “Great Wall of Gorgan,” also, erroneously, known as “Alexander's Wall,” runs from the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea for at least 195 km eastward, into the Elburz ...
Sauer, Eberhard
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New Investigations in the Environment, History and Archaeology of the Iraqi Hilly Flanks: Shahrizor Survey Project 2009-2011 [PDF]
, 2012 Recent palaeoenvironmental, historical, and archaeological investigations, primarily consisting of site reconnaissance, in the Shahrizor region within the province of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan are bringing to light new information on the region’s ...
Adams +130 more
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