Sassanid
Americannoun
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Sassanids,
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Sassanidae
plural
adjective
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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 a ruler of Persia’s powerful Sassanid dynasty.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 10, 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
But after the middle of the third century the Sassanid dynasty restored the power of Persia and revived its ancient pretensions.
From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Franz Cumont
As the youth of Achæmenes is ennobled in the older tradition, so later legends surrounded the life of the progenitor of the Sassanids with premonitory indications.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker
The reasons of their fall are unknown but may be connected with the rise of the Sassanids in Persia.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
Thus the Kushanas were reduced to eastern Iran, where they had to fight against the Sassanids.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
The Sassanids erected fire-temples in Persia no less than in Aderbeijan; their coins always exhibit the fire-altar, and as a rule two priests before it.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker
Therefore the Arabs designate the whole complex of towns which lay together around Seleucia and Ctesiphon and formed the residence of the Sassanids by the name Madāin, “the cities,”—their number is often given as seven.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
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