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Halife Ömer’in Askerî Şehirleri (Ordugâhlar)

open access: yesDini Araştırmalar, 2015
In the time of the Caliph Omar, the maneuvers of conquest were carried out on three wide main fronts, these being Iraq/Iran, Syria and Egypt. The two superpowers of that age were the Sassanid Empire, controlling the Iraq/ Iran region, and the Byzantine ...
Halit Çil
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"The Intellectual life of Manicheans" in Early Islamic Centuries [PDF]

open access: yesتاریخ اسلام, 2007
The ancient Iranian prophet, Manese, rose in the early days of the establishment of the Sassanid Empire. By mixing the customs and rituals of various religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism, it easily managed to approach the ...
Hoseyn-e Moftakhari, Raheleh Za'efi
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Power, Law and Blood: Sources of Patriarchy in the Middle East [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This unpublished article was kindly provided to BU's institutional repository for deposit by the ...
Lindholm, Charles
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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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The Changing Role of the Cataphract in the Byzantine Army [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Contact with the Sassanids as well as nomad tribes such as the Huns taught the Byzantines the importance of cavalry, and in adopting these kinds of tactics they implemented the cataphract into their forces.
Scott, Elliott
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Europe: So Many Languages, So Many Cultures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The number of different languages in Europe by far exceeds the number of countries. All European countries have national languages, and in nearly all of them there are minority languages as well, whereas all major languages have dialects.
Steinhauer, H. (Hein)
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Twenty Centuries of christianity in Georgia [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper traces history of spreading Christianity in Georgia since the 1st century AD, showing its significance for making the Georgian nation. Based on historic sources the story includes the legends linked to the process.
Giuli Alasania
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Marriage and divorce law in Pre-Islamic Persia. Legal status of the Sassanid’ woman (224–651 AD)

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2019
For more than 400 years, the Sassanid Persia was the greatest state in Asia. Zoroastrianism supported by Shahanshahs had an immense influence on the legal principles of the state.
Katarzyna Maksymiuk
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