parthia in English
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1. Although at peace with Parthia, Rome still interfered in its affairs.
2. Parthia became a province of the Achaemenian and then of the Macedonian Empire.
3. Rome and Parthia competed with each other to establish the kings of Armenia as their subordinate clients.
4. Antiochus' sons, the princes Epiphanes and Callinicus, fled to Parthia after a brief encounter with Roman troops.
5. He ruled in the period following the invasion of Parthia by the Seleucid King Antiochus III (223–187 BC).
6. This system of split monarchy weakened Parthia, allowing Tigranes II of Armenia to annex Parthian territory in western Mesopotamia.
7. They Besieged and captured the place after defeating the greatest force that Parthia could bring into the field against them
8. In an agreement reached at Tarentum, Antony provided 120 ships for Octavian to use against Pompeius, while Octavian was to send 20,000 legionaries to Antony for use against Parthia.
9. The Han embassy opened official trade relations with Parthia via the Silk Road yet did not achieve a desired military alliance against the confederation of the Xiongnu.
10. The Antonine Plague was believed to have originated in East Asia, likely proliferating into Roman territory due to normal economic activity and legions returning from combat in Parthia.
11. Due in large part to their employment of powerful heavy cavalry and mobile horse archers, Parthia was the most formidable enemy of the Roman Empire in the east.
12. Plutarch notes that Caesar wrote to Crassus from Gaul, endorsing the plan to invade Parthia — an indication that he regarded Crassus's military campaign as complementary and not merely rivalrous to his own.
13. It is also mentioned by Plutarch that the Parthians found the Roman prisoner of war that resembled Crassus the most, dressed him as a woman and paraded him through Parthia for all to see.
14. Augustus is known as the founder of the Roman Empire and his greatest diplomatic achievement was the retrieval of the battle standards of Roman general Crassus after the Battle of Carrhae from the King Phraates IV of Parthia through diplomatic relations
15. When Phraates III came to the throne in 70 BC, the Roman general Lucullus was preparing to attack Tigranes the Great, king of Armenia, who was supreme in western Asia and had wrested Mesopotamia and several vassal states from Parthia.
16. In addition to the king’s own privy council, or advisory board, composed of “seven princes of Persia and Media” (Es 1:14; Ezr 7:14), there were satraps appointed over major regions or countries, such as Media, Elam, Parthia, Babylonia, Assyria, Arabia, Armenia, Cappadocia, Lydia, Ionia, and, as the empire expanded, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Libya.