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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Formation and Destruction of Pastoral and Irrigation Landscapes on the Mughan Steppe, North-Western Iran [PDF]
, 2010 CORONA satellite photography taken in the 1960s continues to reveal buried ancient landscapes and sequences of landscapes – some of them no longer visible.
Alizadeh, Karim, Ur, Jason Alik
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Rika Gyselen. Primary sources and historiography on the Sasanian Empire [PDF]
Abstracta Iranica, 2013 Demontrant les lacunes dans la publication de P. Pourshariati, Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire, The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran (2008), l’A. souligne l’importance des sources primaires.
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James Howard-Johnston. « The Grand Strategy of the Sasanian Empire » [PDF]
Abstracta Iranica, 2018 L’auteur considere que « la grande strategie de l’empire sassanide » est liee a trois attitudes distinctes. La premiere demarche est appelee « imperialisme passif ou inerte », c’est-a-dire l’absence de la part des Sassanides d’affirmer leur pretention de vouloir elargir leur territoire (vers l’ouest).
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Migration and Ethnopolitical Heritage of Sabirs in Southeastern Europe
ЕмінакThe purpose of the research paper is to systematise and analyse the migration and ethnopolitical heritage of Sabirs in Southeastern Europe. The main focus is on their role in military conflicts, interaction with Byzantium and the Sasanian Empire, as well
Saida Ismailzade
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Horse Armour in the Medieval Islamic Middle East
Arabian Humanities, 2017 The widely held view that horse armour was not used in the early Islamic Middle East is incorrect. Whereas horse armour is clearly mentioned in the documentary record, but is almost absent from iconographic sources, it may be also present in the ...
David Nicolle
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Early historical report of alcohol hepatotoxicity in Minooye Kherad, a Pahlavi manuscript in Ancient Persia, 6th century CE. [PDF]
Caspian J Intern Med, 2022 Hamdi H, Soleymani S, Zargaran A.
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Proposal for encoding the Inscriptional Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, and Psalter Pahlavi scripts in the SMP of the UCS [PDF]
, 2007 This is a proposal to encode Inscriptional Parthian and Inscriptional Pahlavi in the international character encoding standard Unicode. The scripts were published in Unicode Standard version 5.2 in October 2009.
Everson, Michael, Pournader, Roozbeh
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Some information related to the art histrory of the hephthalite time (4th-6th centuries ad) in Central Asia niegbouring countries [PDF]
, 2013 The paper deals with the artefacts which might be related to the Hephthalites, who lived in territory of Central Asia and neighbouring countries in 4th – 6th centuries AD.
Kurbanov, Aydogdy
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Journal of Research on History of Medicine, 2018 The civilization background of Transoxiana and Chorasmia in the ancient era is of utmost grandeur to the extent that the region is known as the origin of Aryan-Iranian civilization. In addition, both can also be regarded as the land where Iranian medical
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