parthian|parthians in English

noun

[Par·thi·an || 'pɑːθjən]

resident or citizen of the ancient country of Parthia

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1. Severus advanced into Mesopotamia, occupied Nisibis and plundered the Parthian capital Ctesiphon in 199, capturing many Parthians and selling them into slavery.

2. Parthian Empire

3. Parthian armies consisted largely of cavalry.

4. In turn, Corbulo demanded the Parthian evacuation of Armenia.

5. Cupbearer, Parthian tkrpty, loanword in Ar­menian takarāpet (cf

6. Mithridates II was the first to be shown wearing the Parthian tiara, embroidered with pearls and jewels, a headdress commonly worn in the late Parthian period and by Sassanid monarchs.

7. Their nationalistic zeal made them much more aggressive foes of the Romans than the Parthians ever were.

8. Suetonius says that Caesar had planned on invading and conquering the Parthian Empire.

9. When he returned from his victory over the Parthians, he erected the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome.

10. Large strata were excavated by Sir John Marshall with a quantity of Parthian-style artifacts.

11. James H. Charlesworth in 1980 proposed that Qumran was damaged in the Parthian war c.

12. Statues erected there feature the typical Parthian shirt (qamis), combined with trousers and made with fine, ornamented materials.

13. Diadumenianus, son of Macrinus, escapes to the Parthian court, but is captured at Zeugma and also put to death.

14. The unsuccessful faction repeatedly attempted to retake power, and in 40 B.C.E., they succeeded with the help of Rome’s enemies, the Parthians.

15. Azes, the name of two Indo-Scythian kings of the major dynasty ruling an empire based on the Punjab and Indus valley from about 50 BCE to CE 30.Regarded as Parthian by some scholars and Scythian by others, the dynasty is probably Scytho-Parthian, a composite people using both Śaka and Pahlava names, derived from the Scythian settlement in the Parthian province of Sīstān.

16. The nearby temple of Jandial is usually interpreted as a Zoroastrian fire temple from the period of the Indo-Parthians.

17. This system of split monarchy weakened Parthia, allowing Tigranes II of Armenia to annex Parthian territory in western Mesopotamia.

18. During the Roman Liberators' civil war of the 1st Century BC, the Parthians actively supported Brutus and Cassius, invading Syria, and gaining territories in the Levant.

19. The Fifteenth Apollinarian Legion was still at Satala at the end of the second century and must have taken part in the Parthian campaigns of the emperor Lucius Septimius Severus (194 and 197-198), which culminated in the sack of the Parthian capital Ctesiphon.

20. After 90 BC, the Parthian power was diminished by dynastic feuds, while at the same time, Roman power in Anatolia collapsed.

21. While attempting to put down the revolts, the main Parthian force swept into the region and killed Antiochus in battle.

22. Together with new units of light mounted archers, the cataphractarii were designed to counter Parthian (and, in Pannonia, Sarmatian) battle-tactics.

23. Anxi 安息 was the Chinese name for the kingdom of the Parthians. It is first mentioned in the history Shiji 史記

24. 13 Alexander the Great conquered Persia, but soon after Persia regained its independence in the form of the Parthian and Sassanid Empires.

25. In distinction to both Parthian and Sarmatian Cataphracts, who represented a wealthy feudal or tribal elite equipped for war, Roman Cataphracts had no social