Search results for "Persian Empire" - New World Encyclopedia
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- and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean. After ... naval passages to the Atlantic, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and to the Pacific ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- grandfather in 238. During his reign, the empire's defenses were strengthened ... forms part of the declining days of the empire, although in terms of the ...15 KB (2,338 words) - 04:18, 24 May 2024
- acquainted with some portions of the Persian Empire, and was used as a field ... to power of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire. ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 14:29, 20 May 2023
- (216-276 C.E.), who resided in the Persian Empire. According to biographical ... high-ranking political figures in the Persian Empire. With the aid of royal ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- flower and its name originated in the Persian Empire. The tulip actually is ... parsley got their very names because of their Persian origins. ...14 KB (2,216 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- not import grain or communicate with its empire without control of the sea ... was his close relationship with the Persian prince Cyrus. Using this ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- ended. He was captured and executed by the Persian King. In fact, he had made ... and Gallienus split the problems of the empire between themselves, with ...18 KB (2,788 words) - 14:13, 3 May 2023
- Дербент; Avar: Дербенд; Persian: دربند, Darband) is ... The name Derbent derives from the Persian darband, meaning closed ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- of Mopsuestia in high esteem. The Sassanid Persian kings, who were at constant ... traveled and preached throughout the Persian Empire and Central and East ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- the Ottomans and the Russians had seized Persian territory for themselves ... a province in the north-east of the Persian Empire. His father, a poor peasant ...23 KB (3,626 words) - 23:01, 10 November 2022
- The Safavids (Persian: صفویان) were a native Iranian dynasty ... early fourteenth century. Its founder was the Persian Meyers Konversations ...23 KB (3,547 words) - 18:36, 22 December 2022
- and the Indian Satrapies of the Persian Empire. The expeditions of Alexander ... by the Achaemenid dynasty of the Persian empire, which used the Aramaic ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- |children=Old Persian, Ugaritic |unicode=[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U12000 ... languages, and it inspired the Old Persian and Ugaritic national alphabets ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- battle fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccan sultanates ... defeated the armies of the Vijayanagara empire in the 1560s C.E., devastating ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- the story of Scheherazade (Šahrzād in Persian), a Sassanid Queen, who ... The nucleus of the stories is formed by a Pahlavi Sassanid Persian ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- the first Christian nation. The Roman Empire did not adopt Christianity ... sphere of influence of the Roman Empire ended the peace since the ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- of the capital of the Vijayanagar empire during the fourteenth to ... protected by the military might of the empire. Why the Vijayanagara ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 19:11, 26 July 2023
- treaty concluded between the Russian Empire and the east Georgian kingdom ... between the mother land and the Muslim empire in the South. Some subsequent ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 14:54, 2 May 2023
- The word Magi refers to a class of ancient Zoroastrian astrologer-priests who once lived in the Persian Empire. Today, the word is most commonly ...20 KB (3,254 words) - 04:59, 5 November 2022
- northern Syria and Iraq to the head of the Persian Gulf. ... Roman control and western regions of the Persian Empire. ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
