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
The skeletons of Persepolis, Susa, Pasargadae, the great dead imperial cities, were bleaching in the sun.
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
Meanwhile Cyrus and Oebares after a brave struggle had been compelled to retire to Pasargadae.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max
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