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- noun Plural form of
Sassanid .
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Although the Sassanids were a nationalistic, avidly pro-Zoroastrian dynasty, whose more orthodox rulers severely persecuted any Zoroastrian sects they considered heresies, they were mostly tolerant of other religions.
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The new dynasty of the Sassanids was a more genuine representative of the civilized Iranian race than the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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After Valerian was captured by the Sassanids and died in captivity in Bishapur, Odaenathus campaigned as far as Ctesiphon (near modern-day Baghdad) for revenge, invading the city twice.
The Romance of Zenobia's Palmyra Heather McDougal 2008
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Beginning in 212, Palmyra's trade diminished as the Sassanids occupied the mouth of the Tigris and the Euphrates.
Archive 2008-04-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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Beginning in 212, Palmyra's trade diminished as the Sassanids occupied the mouth of the Tigris and the Euphrates.
The Romance of Zenobia's Palmyra Heather McDougal 2008
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He had to black-out the revolt by Procopius, and then fight the Sassanids, but the war with the Goths meant his end.
Gold coins of Emperor Valens found in Egypt : Coin Collecting News 2008
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After Valerian was captured by the Sassanids and died in captivity in Bishapur, Odaenathus campaigned as far as Ctesiphon (near modern-day Baghdad) for revenge, invading the city twice.
Archive 2008-04-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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Sassanid Wars, Fall of Sassanids, Battle of al-Q? disiyyah, Battle of Nah? vand, History ...
Lecturing the Muslim world: An analysis of parts of Obama's Cairo speech 2009
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The majority of scholars believe that Dari refers to the Persian word darbār, meaning “Court”, as it was the formal language of the Sassanids.
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China, for example, hardly knew about it, and it never decisively defeated either the Parthians or Sassanids.
chained_bear commented on the word Sassanids
"Midway through the sixth century, the Persian dynasty of the Sasanids (alternate spelling) closed the trade routes and entrepôts to Byzantine traders, forcing them to buy from the Persian state at exorbitant prices. In 575, the Persians shored up the last remaining gap in their monopoly with the conquest and annexation of the then-Christian kingdom of the Yemen, where the Romans had acquired the spices and incense used across Christendom. The East was now closed to the West."
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 258 and 259
December 6, 2016