Sassanid
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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
They also took parts of the Sassanid Empire.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
In the ruins which are acknowledged to be those of the palaces built by the Parthian and Sassanid monarchs, the upper structures are still in existence, and in a more or less well preserved condition.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir
Two of them apparently represent the speech of south-western Persia under the Sassanids, and of north-western Persia under the Arsacids.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
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 Morris, Kenneth
At the court of the Sassanids there were singing women who sang to the kings the achievements of old days.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max
The emperors never, indeed, claimed like the Sassanids to be “brothers or sons of the Sun and Moon.”
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
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
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