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
They also took parts of the Sassanid Empire.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
The powerful Sassanid Persians attacked relentlessly in the east.
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
This question cannot be set aside, because even under the Sassanids, in spite of their zeal for the Avesta and for Iran, these elements were not unknown.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker
IX., or XI., of the Sassanids, but which of them is not known.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
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
His kingdom was honeycombed with Christianity, and he wished to draw closer to the West, where he foresaw the victory of the new faith, in order to fortify his realm against the Sassanids of Persia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
Mordtmann has shown on the coins of the Arsacids and Sassanids the stages between the older forms and the language of Firdusi; "Z. D. M. G."
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker
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