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  • part of Thessaly to rule), and the legendary Persian warrior-princess Rhodogune (this doctrine of equal virtues in men and women is also found in ...
    10 KB (1,495 words) - 05:49, 16 June 2023
  • While this helped integrate Arab and Persian cultures, it alienated many ... troubles by turning on the Barmakids, the Persian family that had supplied ...
    16 KB (2,377 words) - 07:16, 13 June 2023
  • that the name Metatron might be taken from the Persian name Mithras. He lays out a number of parallels between Mithras and Metatron based on their ...
    18 KB (2,679 words) - 23:31, 19 October 2023
  • After the Persian wars, Delos became the meeting-ground for the Delian League, founded in 478 B.C.E. The congresses were held in its temple, ...
    9 KB (1,335 words) - 09:22, 28 January 2024
  • Under the charge of Maulvi Hamiduddin, Sir Syed was trained in Persian ... adoption of Hindi as a second official language of the United Provinces ...
    32 KB (4,963 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
  • Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto language: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, or Persian ...
    50 KB (7,441 words) - 05:59, 16 June 2023
  • While Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, and other Persian and Muslim philosophers ... Besides his Urdu and Persian poetical work, The Reconstruction of ...
    29 KB (4,094 words) - 21:49, 8 March 2024
  • with Zeus Ammon in his account of the Persian War. Zeus Ammon was especially ... * Wren, Brian. What Language Shall I Borrow? God-talk in Worship: ...
    16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
  • applies to all speakers of the Sumerian language. Sumer together with Ancient ... believed they could detect a substrate language beneath Sumerian. However ...
    37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
  • when Cambyses conquered Egypt. In the Persian Empire, Cyprus formed part ... in order to liberate Cyprus from Persian rule, but these efforts ...
    33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
  • and unforeseen consequences—the Persian invasion by Xerxes I led ... all over Asia; Herodotus wrote that the Persian army was so large it "drank ...
    33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
  • dome of the palace presents a beautiful example of Persian architecture. Two Persian inscriptions record the visits of Akbar and Jehangir to the palace ...
    17 KB (2,475 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
  • has been influenced by its Turkic peoples, Persian, Islamic, and Central Asian ... The South Caucasus was eventually conquered by the first Persian Achaemenid ...
    40 KB (5,942 words) - 05:17, 26 August 2023
  • The Corpus was in Latin, the traditional language of the Roman Empire, but ... Like many of his predecessors in the Roman-Persian Wars, Justinian ...
    22 KB (3,355 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
  • lack of understanding about the role of language in human thought. Herder ... and went further in this promotion of language than his earlier injunction ...
    18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
  • majority of Ashkenazi Jewry, is a Jewish language which developed from the ... In Mesopotamia and in Persian lands free of Roman imperial domination ...
    20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
  • with the Iranian people, and speak the Tajik language. After independence ... valley. The name is derived from the Persian word for "Monday" ...
    43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
  • witnessed the highest achievement of Persian civilization, constituting ... as well as a monumental inscription in Persian and Greek in the vicinity ...
    72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
  • is "thumus" in the Greek language, and may be the inspiration ... in Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish, and Persian cuisines, and in those derived ...
    19 KB (2,939 words) - 23:15, 30 April 2023
  • However, Syriac remains the liturgical language of the Maronite Church. ... devastating wars between the Byzantine and Persian Empires of the early seventh ...
    14 KB (2,092 words) - 16:35, 27 January 2022

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