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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, 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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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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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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An Alternative to the Thucydides Trap: The Buffer Zone of Byzantium and Sasanian Persia [PDF]
, 2021 The return of contemporary great power rivalry has renewed interest in the idea of a ‘Thucydides trap’ within IR and security studies. Missing, however, are discussions of great power conflict between Thucydides and 1648.
Blachford, Kevin
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Excavations at Shaikh Marif, Iraqi Kurdistan: Preliminary Report of the First Season (2022) [PDF]
, 2023 The Shahrizor Plain is in a mountainous basin in the eastern part of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where evidence of prehistoric occupations has been increasingly accumulated by recent investigations.
GHARIB Hussein Hama +5 more
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, 2022 Laying the Foundations, which developed out of the British Museum’s ‘Iraq Scheme’ archaeological training programme, covers the core components for putting together and running an archaeological field programme. The focus is on practicality.
MacGinnis, John
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The local governance of social security in rural Surkhondarya, Uzbekistan: Post-Soviet community, state and social order [PDF]
, 2011 Post-Soviet restructurings in the agricultural and social sectors exerted pressure on the livelihood situation of the Uzbek rural population. The sovkhoz/ kolkhoz had been an overarching organisation which locally organised not only agrarian production ...
Poos, Wolf Henrik
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