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Sentence Examples But, over the centuries, Persians, Greeks, Parthians, Kushans, and White Huns invaded India. The citizens of Ahmadabad are mixed races of Dravidians, Aryans, Persians, Arabs and Africans. After the decline of the Hittites, the region was colonized by the Greeks, and later by the Persians after the Persian Wars. The ancient persians did not write much down, and what they wrote was nothing like history. But these persians will have to compete against another, very different image, of Iran in pop culture this year. The Romans, Gauls, Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks and Persians all cherished the egg as a symbol of the universe. Instead, we are offered new civilizations in the forms of the Iroquois, the Americans, the Indians, the Persians, the Dutch, and the Lakota. The Himyarites had by this time formed an alliance with the Persians and defeated the Ethiopian invaders. Beginning around 2000 b.c., pre-Hittites, Hittites, Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans had lived or ruled in the region. The Persians were taken in and sent their navy into the narrow strait between Athens and the island of Salamis. The Byzantines and Persians were the first to feel the pressure of Arab raids. The Persians did not worship wood and stone with the Greeks, nor the ibis and ichneumon with the Egyptians. To the Persians and Arabs the word Hindu covered both the lands watered by the Sindhu and the people living there and beyond. In ancient times, present-day Tajikistan was a part of the empire of the Achaemenian Persians. Sometimes they meet and merge, as the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern systems did when the Greeks and Persians began to war with each other. The League was successful in its immediate aim of driving the Persians from the northern Aegean. From the 450s onward, Pericles rebuilt the city of Athens, a city ravaged by years of wars with the Persians. Having disposed of the tyrant, Heraclius recaptured Byzantium's lost eastern provinces in a brilliant military campaign against the Persians. In the centre, the Persians forced the Greeks back, but were then probably taken in both flanks when the victorious Greek wings wheeled inwards. Croesus asks the Delphic oracle what will happen if he attacks the Persians. Show More Sentences First the Mycenaeans grabbed it, then the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians and Persians owned it. More than 4,000 years ago, the ancient Assyrians, Persians, and Babylonians used mastiffs wearing spiked collars to attack their enemies. These groups included the Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, and Romans. The ancient Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans and East Indians used it to treat certain illnesses. Comprising two of Asia's major mountain ranges, the mountains of Central Asia were known to early Persians as the roof of the world. The Saluki and the horse are prized possessions of the Arabs and the Persians. The Greeks seem to have been fascinated by the splendid costumes of the Persians and the bodies they concealed. Arabs, Syrians, Persians and other Orientals exhibited great interest in this subject even before this period in history. At different times it has been occupied by Persians, Byzantines, Arabs, Mongols, Turks and Russians. The encounter with Persians and Arabs infused a new vitality into Indian music, resulting in the sublime form of khayal. For instance, it is not known exactly how the Norooz festival was viewed in terms of religious beliefs by ancient Persians. Ancient Persians believed that pomegranate seeds made their warriors invincible. The Medes and the Persians were subsequently united by marriage connections. Between the 4th and 19th centuries, Armenia was conquered and ruled by, among others, Persians, Byzantines, Arabs, Mongols, and Turks. They also used lead-based powder to whiten their complexions as the ancient Persians did. He doesn't place his Siamese kitten along with the Persians, apparently for fear of cross-breeding. To be fair, actually, that credit should go to the American shorthair fanciers who bred some of their cats to Persians. They fought the Roman legions and the Sassanid Persians, and in most cases lost. In the first decade of the sixth century, the Persians invaded Thrace and made it part of the satrapy of Skudra. Incursions into the country, successively by the Persians, Byzantines, Mongols and Turks are all said to have left their mark on the cuisine. Show More Sentences He knew that if Esther refused, she too would perish because the law of the Medes and Persians showed no favoritism. So let Your Majesty issue this order and sign it, and it will be in force, a law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed. Arab rule gave way to the Persians, who controlled the area until conquered by the Turkic Ghaznavids. After the victory over the Persians in 479 B. C. the Greeks offered this tripod at the oracle of Delphi, from where it was brought to Byzantium. Deprived of their command of the sea, defeated at the decisive land battle of Plataea, the persians were forced to retreat. There is a mixture of cultures in the Swahili culture, from like the Persians, the Chinese, the Yemenese. The main portion of the Greek army arrived in the city before the Persians could land and seeing the forces arrayed against them, they sailed away. The Persians marched across the Attic peninsula and burned Athens. Others were happy to see Philip as a Greek, and as a man who could restore Greece to a position in which it could face the real barbarians, and in particular the Persians. Greeks, Persians, Medians, Sassanians, and Parthians warred there. The triple line of fortifications constructed on the land side in the fifth century had held off attacks by Goths, Persians, Avars, Bulgars, Russians, and especially Arabs. Misfortune and politics place them between the Arabs, Turks and Persians. After all, the laws of the Medes and Persians never changed at all. Persians are the most mellow, sedentary and equable cats ever created. The Persians who live in Los Angeles describe Meybodi as the Larry King of Iran, but he's more dignified than that, a throwback to an earlier age of TV talk shows. And this temple was set up largely to commemorate the victory over the Persians who had by definition transgressed the divine limits in their attempt to conquer the Greeks. Herodotus found the practice among the Pontic Scythians, and, according to the Maccabees, the ancient Persians tore away the scalp of one of their prisoners. Lawler notes that in the Zoroastrian religion of the Persians, the rooster was of the utmost importance. The tribute was originally designed as a revenue source to pay the wages of the oarsmen who kept the Persians away. Greeks, Persians, Medians, Sassanians, Parthians warred there. Show More Sentences Another misconception is that Iranians are Arabs, when most Iranians are Persians who speak Farsi, an Indo-European language, which uses Arabic script. Thus, Exotic shorthairs, a Burmese or two, and even the occasional Persians can be found among the topmost branches in the family trees of many Scottish folds. The prominent use of Persians in exotic shorthair breeding programs ensures the continued creation of exotics that carry a recessive gene for long hair. I've also had an expert opinion on my cat from a leading authority on Persians, who was posing as an odd-job man at my parents' house at the time. In the mid-sixth century the refugee Pactyes supplicated the Cymaeans, who found themselves threatened with war unless they handed him over to the Persians. Why they stayed there so long is because the Babylonians and later the Persians and the Ottomans made life in that part of the world relatively easy. Once Alexander had destroyed the professional core of Persians and mercenary Greeks at Issus, Darius had to rely on levies from outlying satrapies. I shall not dwell on ancient history, on the conquests of that part of the world by the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Arabs, the Crusaders. He fought first the Theban Greeks, then the Persians, then the Bactrians. The galleys with which the Greeks fought the Persians in classical times were not so different from those with which the Venetians fought the Ottomans 2,000 years later. The Baluch, ethnically closer to the Persians of Iran, live in Char Burjak, Kung, Chakhansoor, and Zaranj districts, and most are farmers. In 626 Constantinople, by far the largest city of early medieval Europe, withstood a combined siege by Avars and Persians. Within several decades, Heraclius completed a holy war against the Persians by taking their capital and having a Sassanid monarch assassinated. Near the end of his life, Alexander and Aristotle became estranged over Alexander's relationship with Persia and Persians. He launched an expensive campaign against the Persians, which ended in defeat and his own death. The triumphant Persians also managed to recover the great fortress of Lenkoran, on the Caspian shore. Diocletian expelled the Persians who plundered Syria and conquered some barbarian tribes with Maximian. Lebanese palaces are very diverse architecturally, being influenced by Arabs, Italians, French, Persians, Turkish and East Asians. In the east, the Ottoman Turks took Baghdad from the Persians in 1535, gaining control of Mesopotamia and naval access to the Persian Gulf. When Umar was assassinated by Persians in 644, the election of Uthman as successor was met with increasing opposition. Show More Sentences After the Persians withdrew from Basra in 1779, Kuwait continued to attract trade away from Basra. They include Bravanese, Bantus, Bajuni, Ethiopians, Indians, Persians, Italians and Britons. According to Muqaddasi, Persians formed the majority of Aden's population in the 10th century. After some initial battles while subjugating the Greeks of the Ionian coast, the Persians determined to invade Greece proper. Aeschylus wrote a play about the defeat, The Persians, which was performed in a Greek theatre competition a few years after the battle. It fell to the Persians again in 343 BC after the last native Pharaoh, King Nectanebo II, was defeated in battle. According to the Persians best informed in history, the Phoenicians began the quarrel. The Persians were defeated by a primarily Athenian naval force at the Battle of Salamis, and in 479 defeated on land at the Battle of Plataea. Indeed, in the Greek of this period 'barbarian' is often used expressly to refer to Persians, who were enemies of the Greeks in this war. After Justinian died in 565, his successor, Justin II refused to pay the large tribute to the Persians. Justin's successor, Tiberius II, choosing between his enemies, awarded subsidies to the Avars while taking military action against the Persians. Constantly under attack, it distanced Western Europe from Persians, Arabs, Seljuk Turks, and for a time, the Ottomans. Abu Sa'id's territories had subsequently collapsed due to a fierce civil war between the Persians and Mongols. Perfumery, as the art of making perfumes, began in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, and was further refined by the Romans and Persians. The Portuguese returned to the Persian Gulf in the following year as allies of Afrasiyab, the Pasha of Basra, against the Persians. The Arabs and the Persians had introduced and made common the most detestable forms of vice. Roman called it as Serendivis and by Arabs as Serandib and the Persians as Serendip, the word Serendipity is derived from this word. For example, his capture of Ormuz in 1507 against the Persians was accomplished with a fleet of seven ships. Though the trade was largely dominated by the Gujurati, other groups such as the Turks, Persians, Armenians, Tamils and Abyssinians traded there. Eventually the Government of British India overpowered Bahrain when the Persians refused to protect it. Show More Sentences Were Herat to fall to the Persians, this would give the Russians a crucial and dangerous toe-hold in western Afghanistan. But underground classes have Persians getting with the beat. The Achaemenid Persians ruled over heterogeneous populations who worshipped different gods, often representing them anthropomorphically. Dorper sheep are descended from Blackhead Persians, a hardy breed with high natural resistance against most diseases, including bluetongue. The Athenian and Plataeans forces beat the Persians for the first time on land. The Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Hellenists, and Romans were all tools of God to punish the stiff-necked people of God. The Persians settlers had by the 6th century BC, mixed with the native Elamite population. These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east. Valens was in Asia with his main field army, preparing for an assault on the Persians, and redirecting the army and its logistic support would have required time. Tang Chinese soldiers and pirates enslaved Koreans, Turks, Persians, Indonesians, and people from Inner Mongolia, central Asia, and northern India. The Persians used mail armour as well as mail and plate armour. Shia Persians form large communities in Manama and Muharraq. Writing letters to the Persians and Ottomans, Al Khalifas agreed to place Bahrain under the latter's protection in March due to offering better conditions. The brouhaha was initially triggered by the actions of Median ruler Astyages, and was quickly spread to other provinces, as they allied with the Persians. As the most extensive interactions the Ancient Greeks had with any outsider was with the Persians, the term persisted, even long after the Persian rule in Greece. After three days, unable to persuade his men to back down, Alexander gave Persians command posts in the army and conferred Macedonian military titles upon Persian units. From Halicarnassus, Alexander proceeded into mountainous Lycia and the Pamphylian plain, asserting control over all coastal cities to deny the Persians naval bases. The city also lost the free grain shipments in 618, after Egypt fell first to the Persians and then to the Arabs, and public wheat distribution ceased. There were no advances in military technology, until, from the mechanical arm action of a slinger, the Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Persians, Chinese, etc. The Khazars dominated the Black Sea steppe during the 8th century, trading and frequently allying with the Byzantine Empire against Persians and Arabs. Show More Sentences Due to incurring heavy losses against the Persians, and on the advice of his mother, Alexander attempted to buy the Germanic tribes off, so as to gain time. During the 6th century BC, all of Anatolia was conquered by the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the Persians having usurped the Medes as the dominant dynasty in Iran. Ancient peoples in the region included Galatians, Hurrians, Scythians, Assyrians, Medes, Persians, Hattians, Cimmerians, Ionian Greeks, the Mongols and Arabs. After Troy's fall the Persians considered the Greeks to be their enemy. A few temporarily successful revolts against the Persians marked the fifth century BC, but Egypt was never able to permanently overthrow the Persians. Reade identifies the motivation for Median attacks on Assyria as similar to that behind previous incursions by Guti and Kassites, and subsequent invasions by Persians. The Persians also introduced Persian gardens into mosque designs. Later many of them returned to their homeland after the subsequent conquest of Babylonia by the Persians seventy years later, a period known as the Babylonian Captivity. Examples from Classical Literature For some time the Athenians watched the persians, not knowing what it was best to do. An excellent work for the study of the Zend-Avesta, the magian religion, and the antiquities of the Medes and Persians. The laws of Zoroaster, with which he is unacquainted, incontrovertibly prove that this vice was never recommended to the Persians. The Saseanian reliefs need not on the whole shrink from a comparison with those of the Achaemenian Persians. If they should do so the Persians would all be destroyed, and Ionia would regain its freedom. The Persians are mostly Shyites, and refuse to receive the Sunnite traditions. The locrian virgins were sent there when the Persians were masters of the country. Defeated again and again, the Persians in their last refuge at Pasargadae are reduced to the greatest distress. It extended north-westwards as far as the Kiziluzn, which formed the frontier between the Persians and the Mannai on this side. It's part of the family plan, and the medes and Persians aren't in it when the family plan is in question. The persians landed from their ships and filled the plain near the shore. She had given her word, and Judy's word was like the laws of the medes and Persians. It is scarcely probable that there could have been only one migration of the Persians. The scene was closed by the arrival of the Persians led by ephialtes in the rear. The latter were driven back, and the Persians made some prisoners, whom they carried away in great triumph to Erivan. Cyrus was a petty king of the shrunken Elamite province of Anshan, which had been conquered by the Persians. This asterism was confessedly first taken notice of by Perez or Perseus, by which is meant the Persians. One gem, ascribed on somewhat doubtful grounds to the Persians of Achaemenian times, contains what appears to be a portrait. I should like to know what gulgul, as we Persians call the nightingale, has to talk about to her mate in the rose-bush. It encompasses the cultures of the entire planet, of the Fuegians as well as the French, of the Paiute as well as the Persians. Show More Sentences After the Greeks came the Persians, who conquered all of northern Africa. The Persians conceived of Ahriman as the embodiment of deceit. Here the Persians rested for a few days ere they embarked for Attica. The Persians poured over the Pass and inundated the plains of Attica. Hence the Persians argued that they had been betrayed by the satrap. For Elam left behind him the Elamites, the ancestors of the Persians. The Persians have a strange story of the Golconda diamond mines. So was the case of Syria-a buffer state between the Empire of Rome and that of Persians. The laws of hospitality are as the laws of the Medes and Persians. Thus then for the second time Ionia revolted from the Persians. It would be to stamp upon our jurisprudence the unchangeableness attributed to the laws of the Medes and Persians. But these conventions are not like the laws of the medes and the Persians. They also defended it against the Persians, and defeated them on the Oxus. Pehlevi was the language of the ancient Persians of pre-Muhammadan times. Chardin did not consider that sadi and Lokman were Persians. It was necessary that Cyrus should find the Persians discontented with the government of the Medes, and the Medes soft and effeminate through their long peace. Monday 300 ITV2, 9PM Directed by Zack Snyder, this is a retelling of the epic tale of the Battle of Thermopylae, when a few hundred Spartans took on thousands of Persians. She took their breaths away by the prices given and received for pedigreed Persians, pedigreed Ohio Improved Chesters, pedigreed Scotch collies, and pedigreed Jerseys. Find more words! 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