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- adjective Alternative spelling of
Sassanian . - noun Alternative spelling of
Sassanian .
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Examples
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They continued to mint Byzantine-style coins complete with the image of the emperor holding a cross, and Sasanian-style coins bearing Zoroastrian symbols and Sasanian dates...
How Islam Spread: Veeery Slooowly, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And a shout-out to someone I know doesn't read my blog -- Dr. V, if you ever see this, I found the connection between Old English and Sasanian Persia!!
Archive 2007-03-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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There are many indications that Heptalian who used to fight with Sasanian were one of those lost tribes.
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By the end of my time at Wake, it was called "Sacred Soldiers: the Zoroastrian Character of the Military Kingship of Sasanian Persia".
Archive 2007-03-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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During the excavation a human skeleton most probably being either Parthian or Sasanian, large Partho-Sasanian earthenware vessels, a large number of Partho-Sasanian potsherds and other relics were taken away and destroyed.
Iranian Islamic Regime Destroys More Persian Culture Jan 2008
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In regard to the Zoroastrian fire temple he said: located in the southern corner of the structure there is a small area, which points out to its function and origin as a Sasanian fire temple.
Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008
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Susa was an ancient city in the Elamite, Achaemenids, Parthian and Sasanian dynastic empires of Iran, located about 150 miles east of the Tigris River in Iranian province of Khuzestan.
Susa Site to be Spared! Jan 2008
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In July 1999 and November 2006 over 1,100 similar coins belonging to Sasanian and Arab-Sasanian periods were discovered in Swedish island of Gotland.
Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008
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They are found mainly between Karachi and Bombay in areas under Sasanian influence, and inland towards Delhi, and seem to have been imported into India throughout their period of manufacture in Mesopotamia.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008
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Torpedo jars are lined with bitumen to keep their liquid contents from evaporating, and may have been the dequre of Sasanian texts: if so, this suggests a wine-drinking clientele in contemporary India.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008
chained_bear commented on the word Sasanian
"In a population of one million people, the majority of the residents were Chinese, but a sizable foreign community lived in the city as well. ... Some foreigners settled in China as the result of treaties. In 631, after the Eastern Turks surrendered to the Tang, nearly ten thousand households were ordered to move to Chang'an, and many of these households were Sogdians in the service of the Turks. When the Tang forces conquered different Central Asian kingdoms, they required their former rulers to send their sons to Chang'an as hostages, further swelling the numbers of foreigners in the city. Perhaps the most famous refugees were the descendants of the Sasanian emperors who fled Iran after the fall of their capital at Ctesiphon to Muslim forces in 651. The last Sasanian emperor, Yazdegerd III, died while in flight, but his son Peroz and grandson Narseh both moved permanently to the city."
--Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 149
January 3, 2017