Pasargadae
Americannoun
noun
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These roads constituted an impressive communication system that linked the many key cities of the empire with the Persian heartland and its cities, like Susa, Persepolis, and Pasargadae.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Architectural design concepts and technical know-how came from the Persians to the Greek world via the many Ionian Greek workmen who helped build Persepolis, Susa and Pasargadae, named Yauna in Persian texts.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2015
They began officially when the Shah visited the unadorned stone tomb of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae, 50 miles from Persepolis.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has found, he wrote, inscriptions of the true tomb on a plateau over-looking the Plain of Murghab, the true site of Cyrus's vanished capital, Pasargadae.
From Time Magazine Archive
On his round cap or bonnet glittered a string of those rare pearls, especially and immemorially prized in the East, which formed the favourite and characteristic ornament of the illustrious tribe of the Pasargadae.
From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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