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Military Architecture and the Four-Spāhbed System for Defense of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE)
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.
Kaveh Farrokh, G. Karamian, H. Karamian
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Timber in an archaeological context can be used to establish chronologies, to understand the history of architecture and to reconstruct cultural landscapes and natural vegetation in the past.
M. Djamali +4 more
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The Bones of Khosrow: The Sacred Topography of Ctesiphon
This essay discusses the importance of Ctesiphon in the historical and literary tradition of Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Iran.
Touraj Daryaee
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Field of the Administrative Geography of the Sasanian Empire on the Auspicious Occasion of the Publication of La Géographie Administrative de l’Émpire Sassanide. Les Témoignages Épigraphiques en Moyen-Perse [PDF]
The political and administrative structures of the Sasanian Empire have been the focus of numerous research. For the rather recent developments of the subject, though, Rika Gyselen’s studies have been crucial.
Hossein Habibi
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A Late Sasanian Coin Hoard from Orumiyeh [PDF]
The coinage of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE) is not only the most important primary source for its monetary and economic history, but also of greatest relevance for its history and art history.Coin hoards are of pivotal importance for studying ...
Daryoosh Akbarzadeh, Nikolaus Schindel
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Khosrow II (r. 590–628 CE) was the last great Sasanian king who took the throne with the help of the Romans and broke with dynastic religious preferences as he became married to a Christian empress.
Mahdi Motamedmanesh, Samira Royan
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A Note on the Compound Kabul/ Zirang-China/ Chinestan Based on Kush-nama [PDF]
1.Introduction Kuš-nāma (501-04/1108-11) is one of the most important books dealing with Iran-China and Silla historical relations. A unique manuscript of the work (by M.
Daryoosh Akbarzadeh
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A Comparative Study of the narrations of Last Sasanian Kings in Jiu Tangshu and Xin Tangshu [PDF]
Introduction One of the most detailed narrations about the Sasanians in Chinese texts is the reports of Jiu Tangshu and Xin Tangshua on the Last Sasanian Kings.
Hamidreza Pashazanous
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Sacred Beads of Pearl Necklaces of Sasanian Kings Based on their Coins [PDF]
The Avesta and Zoroastrian manuscripts, in Pahlavi language, have been studied, interpreted and translated numerous times over the past century. The study of sacred numbers, only based on the above-mentioned texts, has also been a part of printed ...
Daryoosh Akbarzadeh
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