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  • crushed the Iranian armies at Arbela, and wrested the sceptre from the hands of Darius III, in 330 b.c., and the structure of the Iranian empire was shattered...
    512 bytes (1,701 words) - 12:45, 26 June 2019
  • foot of the mountains in the corner of the Caspian and by the Turanian desert; on the S. by the great salt desert of central Iran. It corresponds to the...
    313 bytes (1,443 words) - 20:13, 14 May 2020
  • Osraëne (1887); Gesch. Irans (Alexander the Great to the fall of the Arsacidae) (Tübingen, 1887). He wrote on Persia and Phoenicia in the 9th edition of the...
    311 bytes (221 words) - 02:49, 6 January 2020
  • province of the Achaemenian empire, and probably was occupied in great measure by a race of Iranian blood. About 250 B.C. Diodotus (Theodotus), governor of...
    333 bytes (631 words) - 15:50, 26 June 2020
  • Euphrates or in Iran seems to have been ascribed to her—even the Behistun inscriptions of Darius (Diod. Sic. ii. 3). Of this we already have evidence in Herodotus...
    294 bytes (669 words) - 13:12, 15 January 2022
  • Iranians is understood to comprehend all these people of Aryan nationality. Besides the Iranians, numerous tribes of alien origin were found in Iran....
    924 bytes (101,494 words) - 01:25, 11 November 2024
  • the population in the towns, are a mixture of Turks with Iranians. The great bulk of the population in the country is composed of Iranian Tajiks, who differ...
    445 bytes (2,433 words) - 15:17, 19 February 2023
  • the seat of the Iranian wanderers, who established the religion of Zoroaster, and expelled the Vedic inhabitants of the country. In the 7th century B...
    485 bytes (761 words) - 22:59, 18 January 2022
  • Ménétriés, 1832 from Talysh mountains (including Iranian part). Six subspecies are distributed in Iran: D. (C.) s. babakkalense, ssp. n. (type locality...
    1 KB (25,244 words) - 21:05, 21 October 2024
  • development of which he did yeoman service. West's lasting renown rests upon his Iranian labours. Almost as soon as he reached India, occasional conversations with...
    368 bytes (1,200 words) - 12:38, 1 January 2021
  • Parthians, for their speech as we know it was adopted ​after they entered the Iranian plateau. Their cus­toms give us more extensive and more certain infor­mation...
    358 bytes (8,237 words) - 14:54, 27 June 2019
  • Both Medes and Persians are Aryans; the Aryans who settled in the southern part of the Iranian plateau became known as Persians, while those of the mountain...
    104 KB (17,429 words) - 20:45, 5 November 2013
  • by the “Scythians” or Sacae, who overran Iran in 128 B.C. It was included in the Sassanian empire, and then in the empire of the caliphs. About A.D. 860...
    280 bytes (2,330 words) - 15:41, 11 June 2019
  • under pressure from the great waves of Aryan migration flowing from the Iranian tableland westwards to Asia Minor and Europe. The Georgians proper are...
    460 bytes (3,402 words) - 17:36, 19 February 2023
  • (Stuttgart); An Avesta Grammar in Comparison with Sanskrit, 1892 (Stuttgart); An Avesta Reader, 1893; Zoroaster, the Phophet of Ancient Iran, 1898; Die Iranische...
    76 KB (9,133 words) - 17:20, 2 July 2023
  • Greeks, Romans, Parthians.—Seneca Epistolae lviii. 12.     ​   PREFACE IN 1873 George Rawlinson published his Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy. Since that...
    964 bytes (872 words) - 23:32, 10 October 2022
  • European people is apparent. Several of the gods go back to the time of Indo-Iranian unity, e.g. Yama (the Avestan Yima), Soma (haoma), Mitra (the later Persian...
    12 KB (2,034 words) - 18:41, 21 April 2013
  • oumey through the Countries of Balochistan, Afghanistan, Khorassan, and Iran in 1872; together , with a complete Synoptical Grammar and Vocabulary of the...
    398 bytes (9,704 words) - 19:34, 18 July 2018
  • form of the skull; these are: 1, the Iranian (the Caucasian of previous writers), in the form of the skull and in physical traits resembling Europeans...
    344 bytes (6,363 words) - 12:52, 29 December 2021
  • of alpine tracts which fringes them, and in whose deep and sheltered valleys the Turkish and partly Iranian population of Turkestan find a fertile soil...
    921 bytes (14,150 words) - 14:25, 9 August 2024
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