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
They also took parts of the Sassanid Empire.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
The Byzantine and Sassanid empires had been in conflict for a long period of time and were exhausted militarily.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
During the last years of the Sassanid dynasty the work was resumed, the former collection being revised and greatly added to by the Dihkan Danishwer, assisted by several learned mobeds.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
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 Duncker, Max
Internal disturbances of a religious and political character and external disasters had long ago shattered the empire of the Sassanids indeed, but the Iranians had not yet lost their patriotism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
Semiramis, but her brother was the first Sassan, the ancestor of the Sassanids.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max
Under the Arsacids and Sassanids the office continued.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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
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