Sassanid
Americannoun
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Sassanids,
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Sassanidae
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Etymology
Origin of Sassanid
1770–80; Sassan grandfather of first king of dynasty + -id 1
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Named a World Heritage site in 2015, it was “an important center of the Roman, Sassanid, Byzantine, Islamic and Ottoman periods,” she added.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2023
The ancient city of Hatra fended off two Roman emperors and repulsed Persia’s powerful Sassanid dynasty.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 9, 2015
The Byzantine and Sassanid empires had been in conflict for a long period of time and were exhausted militarily.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Another reason for Muslim success was the persecution suffered by people under Byzantine or Sassanid rule because they did not support the official state religions, Christianity or Zoroastrianism.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Their banishment from Edessa in 489 drove the Nestorian scholars to Persia, where the Sassanid rulers gave them a welcome; and there they continued their labours on the Organon.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
Internal disturbances of a religious and political character and external disasters had long ago shattered the empire of the Sassanids indeed, but the Iranians had not yet lost their patriotism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
But this historical aspect of the myth is of late origin: it is nothing but a reflex of the great Iranian empire founded by the Achaemenids and restored by the Sassanids.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
Four years after the accession of this greatest of the Byzantines, the greatest of the Sassanids came to the throne in Persia: Chosroes Anushirwan: a wise and victorious reign until 579.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
In the latest period of the dominion of the Sassanids, the recent Middle Persian or Parsee took the place of Pehlevi.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker
The Sassanids also carry the club now called guzr.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker
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