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Sasanid music (from historical texts to archaeological evidence) [PDF]

open access: yesVestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta Kul Turologiya I Iskusstvovedenie, 2020
The Sasanid government is the last government before the arrival of Islam to Iran. The great kings of this government including Khosrow Parviz and Bahram Gure were fond of music.
Afkhami, Behrouz, Parvin, Samad
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Cairn Burial of the historical period around Khansaar dam, Toujerdi district of Fars province, Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
In the historical period, the Fars region in Iran was one of the most important cultural areas in the world, and it is considered the origin of the ancient Achaemenid and Sasanian empires.
KHANIPOUR, Morteza   +3 more
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An Alternative to the Thucydides Trap: The Buffer Zone of Byzantium and Sasanian Persia [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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“Their Beastly Manner” : discourses of non-binary gender and sexuality in Shi’ite Safavid Persia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The Safavid dynasty ruled Persia between sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and is known as a turning period in the political, social and religious trajectories of Persian history.
Rahbari, Ladan
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Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Katáfraktoi in the Byzantine Army [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
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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Renewal and perspectives in Iranian archaeology over the last two decades [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In memory of Olivier Lecomte. From Tureng Tepe to Ulug Depe a 45-year friendshipThese few pages provide a very schematic overview of archaeological research in Iran since the end of the 20th century.
Boucharlat, Rémy
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Hammams and the contemporary city: the case of Isfahan, Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
iFirst article (2012)Hammams, or public baths, are an essential part of the social life in urban Islam. Often, they have a rich and inspiring architecture. In Iran and, in particular, in Isfahan – a large and historic city in central of Iran – numerous
Kazemi, Zahra   +1 more
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The Daylamite Involvement in the Lazic War (541-562) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
In the Late Antiquity, the Caucasus region had become a battle ground for the Byzantines and the Sasanians. The conflict between the two great empires escalated in the 6th century, when both sides overcame internal conflicts and pursued active foreign ...
KHOPERIA, Nika, KHOPERIA, Nika
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Megjegyzések Prokopios „perzsa történeteihez” (De bellis I, 2–6) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Történeti műve bevezetŐjének végén Prokopios vázolja a bizánciak és a perzsák kapcsolatának történetét. A mű ezen részét (De bellis I, 2–6), mely anekdotába illŐ epizódokból, mesékbŐl és kitalált történetekbŐl áll, a kutatók a történeti hitelességet ...
Mészáros, Tamás
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Gordāfarid of Šāh-nāma, the woman, who revolutionized the naqqāli tradition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Šāh-nāma of Firdowsī and the naqqāli tradition are two distinctive traditions of Iran. Šāh-nāma, an epic that tells the story of pre-Islamic Iran, focuses on a heroic narrative.
MORADI, Maryam   +3 more
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