Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Katáfraktoi in the Byzantine Army [PDF]
This article discusses the question of origin and identity of katáfraktoi – heavy-armoured cavalry in Byzantium. In the specialist literature on the subject, there is a widespread opinion that the heavily-armoured elitist cavalry, defined as catafracti
Wojnowski, Michał
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Religion and Government in Sasanian Era: Introduction to Zarathustra’s Political Theology [PDF]
The idea of Iran as a religious, cultural, and ethnic reality goes back as far as the end of the 6th century B.C.E. As a political idea, we first catch sight of it in the twenties of the 3rd century C.E.
Mostafa Ensafi, Shoja Ahmadvand,
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Examining Visual Representations of Political and Military Interactions between the Sassanids and the Romans [PDF]
Introduction: The political/military confrontation between the Sassanids and the Romans, in late ancient times, led to the formation of a kind of propaganda and deterrent art, which can be called "political art".
Ebrahim Raiygani +2 more
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Archaeological and ethnographic survey in the Paikuli Area (Iraqi Kurdistan) [PDF]
The Italian Archaeological Mission in Iraqi Kurdistan (MAIKI) of the Sapienza University of Rome aims to study the archaeological, historical, linguistic and cultural development of the Kurdish region through a wide historical period.
BOGDANI, JULIAN +2 more
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'Religion' in Late Antique Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism: Developing a Term in Counterpoint
This article evaluates the development of a generic term for ‘religion’ in late antique Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism. It examines linguistic indications of the use of dēn/δēn as a generic term in the Manichaean Middle Iranian corpora, i.e.
Kianoosh Rezania
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Narseh, Armenia, and the Paikuli Inscription
Narseh son of Šābuhr I reigned from 293 to 302, once he had won the dynastic war that saw him opposing his grand-nephew, Wahrām III, he narrated the events in the great Paikuli inscription, which also contains the names of a long list of nobles and ...
Carlo G. Cereti
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Introduction Mobility and migration in the early medieval Mediterranean
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 357-359, August 2023.
Claudia Rapp
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A comparative study of the annual income of the Sassanian Empire after the reforms of Khosrow Anoushiravan with the Roman, and Han empires and theAbbasid Caliphate . [PDF]
From the Sasanian Empire and other great states such as the Roman Empire, the Han Empire, and the Abbasid Caliphate, there are reliable tax data that can be used to compare the economic power of these governments.
amin babadi
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Ann Laura Stoler has asked what happens when we shift our scrutiny from the picturesque ruins of empire to the ongoing process of ruination. Examining some of the many and continuing ruinations of the site Dura-Europos on the Syrian Euphrates, this paper
J. A. Baird
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Explanation and Analysis of Mechanism for the Formation of Urban Development in the Sasanian Empire (224-651 AD) [PDF]
Sasanian urban development has been continually received a lot of interest from the Sasanian kings and its importance can be realized by the naming of many current cities which still bear the names of some kings of this dynasty.
Rouholah Khosravi Nejad +2 more
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