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The Euphrates as a Boundary between Rome and Parthia in the Late Republic and Early Empire

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It is generally agreed that during the first century BC the Euphrates River came to represent a negotiated boundary of Roman and Parthian power in the Near East, and that this remained the case until the overthrow of the Parthians by the Sassanians in ...
Peter M. Edwell
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Report on the Excavations of Ḥīra in 2010-2011

Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies, 2012
ost of the studies on the city of Ḥīra are based on Islamic Arabic and Syriac literary sources. Prominent among studies in Arabic is the research by Yousif Rizq-Allāh Ghanīma, which makes use of the 10century Kitāb al-Aghānī, among other sources, as well
Nasir Al-ka'bi
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The Sassanian 'Immortals'

Iranica Antiqua, 2011
The Sassanian Persians are generally regarded as having maintained an elite cavalry unit called the 'Immortals', the formation of which was inspired by Achaemenian practice, thereby demonstrating continuity between the two dynasties, as per the general scholarly view.
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Roman Emperors in the Sassanian Reliefs

Journal of Roman Studies, 1954
The purpose of this paper is to put forward a new interpretation of five rock-reliefs in the province of Fars, S. Persia, which have been held to commemorate the capture of the Emperor Valerian near Edessa in A.D. 260. These reliefs may be grouped according to the number of Romans present.
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The Bisotun–Madharan route: the reconstruction of a lost communication route in the southern part of the Bisotun–Sahneh plain

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
According to Islamic geographical texts, the route that passed along the southern bank of the Gamasiab River on the current Bisotun–Sahneh plain, connecting Kermanshah (Qarmisin) and Bisotun (Behistun) to Madharan, Kangavar (Qasr al-Lusus), and ...
Iraj Rezaei
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The Old Armenian Root “Bulh” and the Bulgars in the Armenian Geography “Ashkharatsuyts” (7th Century AD)

Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie-Foreign Language Teaching
In 2003, based on the hypothesis that “Bulgars” was originally a religious name, I proposed a new etymology of their name – from two Indo-European word stems *b[h]olk’-„to shine, to blaze“ and b[h]org[h]- „high, mountain, hill“, which thousands of years ...
Petar Goliyski
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EARLY AND LATE SASSANIAN COINAGE

Journal for Semitics, 2017
Sassanian coinage is one the best sources for information on the individual kings from this Persian dynasty. This is because the coins are primary sources that are unaltered. The way in which the Sassanian coins changed is not a topic that has been dealt with extensively.1 A stylistic analysis and comparison of the coins from the different Sassanian ...
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