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Sasanian Empire-related Lists
The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of Iranians (, ) and also referred to by historians as the Neo-Persian Empire, was the History of Iran, last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th-8th centuries AD. Named after the Sasanian dynasty, House of Sasan, it endured for over four centuries, from 224 to 651 AD, making it the longest-lived List of monarchs of Persia, Persian imperial dynasty. The Sasanian Empire succeeded the Parthian Empire, and re-established the Persians as a major power in late antiquity alongside its neighbouring arch-rival, the Roman Empire (after 395 the Byzantine Empire).Norman A. Stillman ''The Jews of Arab Lands'' pp 22 Jewish Publication Society, 1979 International Congress of Byzantine Studies ''Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London, 21–26 August 2006, Volumes 1–3'' pp 29. Ashgate Pub Co, 2006 The empire was founded by Ardashir I, an Iranian ruler who rose to po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Pahlavi
Pahlavi is a particular, exclusively written form of various Iranian languages, Middle Iranian languages. The essential characteristics of Pahlavi are: *the use of a specific Aramaic script, Aramaic-derived script; *the incidence of Aramaic language, Aramaic words used as heterogram (linguistics), heterograms (called ''Frahang-i Pahlavig, hozwārishn'', "archaisms"). Pahlavi compositions have been found for the dialects/ethnolects of Parthian language, Parthia, Middle Persian language, Persis, Sogdian language, Sogdiana, Scythian language, Scythia, and Khotanese language, Khotan. Independent of the Variety (linguistics), variant for which the Pahlavi system was used, the written form of that language only qualifies as Pahlavi when it has the characteristics noted above. Pahlavi is then an admixture of: *written Aramaic language#Imperial Aramaic, Imperial Aramaic, from which Pahlavi derives its script, logograms, and some of its vocabulary. *spoken Iranian languages, Middle Irania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
