Persians or Persian people may refer to Persian people , are an ethnic group native to the Middle East and Central Asia An old designation for all Iranian people . The Persians , a play by Aeschylus See also disambig ... more details
Infobox Play name The Persians image Treasury relief.jpg caption Relief of Xerxes I the Great writer ... orig lang Ancient Greek genre Tragedy The Persians lang el , Persai is an Classical Athens ... Greek tragedy that is based on contemporary events. Production The Persians was the second part ... to favor Glaucus Potnieus Garvie 2009, xl xlvi . See, however Muller Lewis 1858, 322. ref In The Persians ... the Titan mythology titan s theft of fire. ref According to the hypothesis of The Persians found e.g. in the Loeb and OCT editions of Aeschylus plays. ref Summary The Persians takes place in Susa ... the Persians his older contemporary Phrynichus wrote two plays about them. The first, The Sack of Miletus ... of Athens in Asia Minor by the Persians for his portrayal of this brutal defeat, which emphasized ... as Aeschylus Persians . Neither of Phrynichus plays have survived. Interpretations of Persians either read the play as sympathetic toward the defeated Persians or else as a celebration of Greek victory ... of Syracuse, Sicily Syracuse at some point invited Aeschylus to reproduce the Persians in Sicily . ref ..., the comic playwright Aristophanes mentions an apparent Athenian reproduction of the Persians in his The Frogs Frogs 405 BCE . ref Garvie 2009, lv. ref In it, he has Aeschylus describe The Persians ... and cried Wah Wah 1026 28 . ref See Barrett 1964, 194. ref The Persians was popular in the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire , who also fought wars with the Persians and its popularity has endured ... . ref File Peter Sellars 1993 Persians frontcover lo res.jpg thumb right 200px Detail from the front ... directed an important production of The Persians at the Edinburgh International Festival Edinburgh ... Miroto . ref name progsellars Ellen McLaughlin translated Persians in 2003 for Tony Randall s National ... Iraq war . Critic Dolan Cummings noted Persae is an adaptation of Aeschylus The Persians , a play about ... . Cambridge. Favorini, Attilio. 2003. History, Collective Memory, and Aeschylus Persians ... more details
Summary Non free use rationale Article The Persians Description Detail from the front cover of the programme for the 1993 production of The Persians, directed by Peter Sellars Source Original scan by User DionysosProteus DionysosProteus Portion portional Low resolution Low resolution scan of original production programme Purpose The image is significant in identifying the subject of the article, which is the play itself. It is of sufficient resolution for commentary and identification for informational and educational purposes. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality for uses that would compete with the commercial purpose of the original product. Scan taken from original production programme 1993 and used to illustrate critical commentary on the production Replaceability No free equivalent exists that would effectively identify the production, critical discussion of which forms part of the article s subject. other information It is held that the use of copyrighted book cover images for the purpose of illustration is permitted under US copyright law governing the fair use of copyrighted properties. Licensing Non free book cover ... more details
Three Whom God Should Not Have Created Persians, Jews, and Flies Arabic language Arabic is the name of a racist Iraq i government pamphlet widely published during the era of Saddam Hussein . The author, Khairallah Talfah , was an Iraq i Ba ath Party official, and the maternal uncle and father in law of Saddam Hussein . He first wrote the ten page pamphlet in 1940. In 1981, following the start of the Iran Iraq War , the Iraqi government publishing house Dar al Hurriyya House of Liberty republished it, and the Iraqi Ministry of Education Iraq Ministry of Education distributed the propaganda as part of a textbook for school children. The work describes Persian people Persians as animals God created in the shape of humans , Jews as a mixture of dirt and the leftovers of diverse people , ref cite news url http www.telegraph.co.uk news 1424980 He dreamed of glory but dealt out only despair.html?pageNum 1 title He dreamed of glory but dealt out only despair first David last Blair publisher The Daily Telegraph date 2003 03 18 ref and fly flies as poor misunderstood creatures whom we do not understand God s purpose in creating ref name con Con Coughlin. Saddam His Rise and Fall , page 19. ISBN 9780060505431 Quoted from Samir al Khalil. Republic of Fear , 1989. University of California press. p. 17. ref ref Efraim Karsh, Inari Rautsi. Saddam Hussein a political biography . Grove Press, 2003. ISBN 0802139787, 9780802139788 http books.google.com.br books?id oMx1Vz RYGAC&pg PA15 Pg 15 ref According to Con Coughlin , This weak Iraqi attempt at imitating Mein Kampf nevertheless had a bearing on Saddam s future policymaking. As president of Iraq, Saddam s foreign policy was determined by his hatred of the Persians, or Iranians as they are better known, and the Israelis. ref name con Saddam Hussein had the book s title phrase etched into a plaque he kept on his desk. ref Kengor, Paul. The rise and fall of a dictator , The Washington ... more details
Battle of Satala can refer to Battle of Satala 298 , between the Romans under Galerius and the Sassanid Persians under Narseh Battle of Satala 530 , between the Eastern Romans under Sittas and the Sassanid Persians under Mihr Mihroe disambig ... more details
unreferenced date September 2008 The Battle of Namaraq was a conflict between the Muslim forces of the Caliph Umar against the Persian army commanded by Jaban , taking place September 634 in Namaraq near modern day Kufa . The battle ended in the defeat of the Persians, who lost heavily. battle stub coord missing Category History of Iran ... more details
Aeaces Ancient Greek Greek polytonic is the name of several different figures in ancient Greek history and mythology Aeaces , the father of Syloson and Polycrates . ref Herodotus , Histories Herodotus Histories iii. 39, 139, vi. 13 ref Aeaces , the son of Syloson , and the grandson of the above Aeaces. He was tyrant of Samos Island Samos , but was deprived of his tyranny by Aristagoras , when the Ionians revolted from the Persian people Persians in 500 BC . He then fled to the Persians, and induced the Samians to abandon the other Ionians in the sea fight between the Persians and Ionians. After this battle, in which the latter were defeated, he was restored to the tyranny of Samos by the Persians in 494 BC . ref Herodotus , Histories Herodotus Histories iv. 138, vi. 13, 14, 25 ref ref Citation last Smith first William author link William Smith lexicographer contribution Aeaces 1 and 2 editor last Smith editor first William title Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 22 publisher place Boston year 1867 contribution url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0031.html ref References reflist SmithDGRBM Category Ancient Samians ... more details
Alcimachus or Alkimachos may refer to Alkimachos Painter Attic red figure vase painter c. 460 BC Alcimachus brother of Lysimachus , youngest of the sons of Thessalian Agathocles. General and diplomat of Alexander the Great Alcimachus father of Euphorbus traitor, he betrayed Eretria to Persians Alcimachus of Pydna Macedonian Epirote buried in Pydna disambig ... more details
Tajiks may refers to Persian peoples , a term used for Persians in general and more specifically today in Central Asia Tajiks of Xinjiang , a minority in China who speak different Pamir languages Pamiri people , speakers of Pamir languages Iranian people in general Disambig ... more details
Unreferenced auto yes date December 2009 Onesilus alternatives Onesilos, Onisillos Greek language Greek died 497 BC was the brother of king Gorgos Gorgus of the Ancient Greece Greek city state of Salamis, Cyprus Salamis on the island of Cyprus . Cyprus was a part of the Achaemenid Empire Persian Empire but when the Ionian Revolt Ionians rebelled from Persian rule , Onesilos used the occasion to capture the city of Salamis and usurp his brother s throne he was able to win every city on the island except for the Graeco Phoenician city state of Amathus , which stayed loyal to the Persians. In 497 BC, the Persians, with the help of the Phoenicia n navy, mounted an attack on Cyprus. Some of the Ionian colonies sent ships to assist Onesilos. In the ensuing battle, the Ionian fleet was able to defeat the Phoenician navy. Onesilos then led an army against the Persian general, Artybius. While Artybius was killed, the Persians won the battle during which Onesilos was killed. As a result, the Ionian fleet retreated from Cyprus and five months later, the Persians regain control of Cyprus. Onesilos brother, Gorgus Chersides, was then reinstated by the Persians as king of Salamis. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Category 6th century BC births Category 497 BC deaths Category Ancient Greeks killed in battle Category Ancient Greek rulers Category Cypriot military personnel Category Cypriot monarchs Category Ancient Cypriots Category Ionian Revolt Ancient Greece bio stub Cyprus bio stub Euro mil bio stub Greece royal stub el sh Onesil sv Onesilos ... more details
The name given to Tengri by the Persian people Persians . ref http groznijat.tripod.com p bulgar p bulg1b.htm English summary of the monograph of Bulgarian historian Dimityr Dimitrov on the Early Medieval history of the Proto Bulgarians in the lands north of the Black Sea D.Dimitrov. Prabylgarite po severnoto i zapadnoto Chernomorie, Varna, 1987 ref References references http www.eumed.net entelequia pdf 2010 e11a14.pdf Tengri on Mars Category Altaic deities Category European mythology Euro myth stub ... more details
The Persian language Persian speaking peoples constitute one of the largest Indo European languages Indo European linguistic groups in the world. Populations are principally concentrated in Iran , Afghanistan , Tajikistan , Uzbekistan , Azerbaijan Republic of Azerbaijan , and western China Chinese province of Xinjiang . Persian people Persians T jik people Tajiks Hazara people Hazara Tats ie lang stub Category Iranian languages ... more details
Siege of Antioch may refer to Siege of Antioch 540 by the Sassanid Persians Siege of Antioch 968 969 by the Byzantines Siege of Antioch 1084 by the Seljuks Siege of Antioch 1098 by the Crusaders Siege of Antioch 1268 by the Mamelukes disambig bg es Sitio de Antioqu a fr Si ge d Antioche homonymie ms Pengepungan Antioch ... more details
P yyg n S l r were commanders of infantry units within the Sassanid armies.The P yyg n S l r were very respected and trustworthy men,they would be guarded by the elite Dailamites . Sources Sassanian Elite Cavalry AD 224 642 History Magazine Historiae Peter Wilcox, Rome s Enemies 3 Parthians and Sassanid Persians Osprey Publishing 2001 . ISBN 0 85045 688 6 David Nicolle, Sassanian Armies the Iranian empire early 3rd to mid 7th centuries AD Montvert Publishing 1996 . ISBN 1 874101 08 6 MEast hist stub Category Sassanid Empire ... more details
by Arabs, and the word is also mistakenly used to call Sunni Persians who migrated from Persia , or Iran to the Arabian peninsula. The Huwala are much different from the Sunni Persians who also .... However after some Persians sought moving from Iran to the Arabian peninsula due to many different reasosn such as job opportunities and Pearl Diving as well as business, many Persians both ... issue was the true identity of the Sunni Persians and Huwala. However both of them were favored by the Arab ... Arabs while the other are Persians . Al Ka abi tribe Khuzestan of Iran . Al Marzooqi tribe Independent ... namesake of the Almoayyed Tower Zainal family Ethnicity confusion with Persians Merge to Persian ... of the Sunni Persians in Iran are from Arabian descent, thanks to the arrival of the Huwala and Sunni Persians to Arabia and their claims to be Arabs, of which is wrong. Iran still has some big ... original Sunni Persians. Their villages are many and can still be located mostly in the Fars Province .... In later years Some of the those Sunni Persians left Iran to the GCC countries to work or to make ... were exiled from Iran, thus creating a confusing issue of how to distinguish between Persians and Arabs ... Persians left for the Arabian peninsula, was that most had the anti religious pressure of Iran s former ... and Sunni Persians, not only to the Arabian peninsula, but to other parts of the world too. But because the GCC countries were the nearest point, it was the Persians first choice to leave for. It had ... since they lived in same areas. This however is useful to distinguish between sunni Persians and Sunni Arabs in Iran. ref http en.wikipedia.org wiki Demographics of Iran ref Many of the other Sunni Persians ... more details
battle to the numerically superior Persians. He dug a number of ditches to block the Persian cavalry .... The Persians then withdrew to Ammodius for the night. On the second day of the battle, 10,000 more Persian troops arrived from Nisibis . The Persians and Byzantines exchanged volleys of arrows, with a few casualties on each side but mostly ineffective. The Persians formed two lines the right flank ... against the Roman left flank. The Persians forces a crossing of the ditch, pushing back the Roman horse ... Herulians attacking out of ambush from the opposite side, forced the Persians wing to retreat. The Persians then attacked the Byzantine right wing, where Firouz sent the Persian Immortals , the elite ... the Persian troops in two. Half the Persians pursued the Byzantine cavalry, but the rest were trapped ... of the Spahbod Azarethes , the Persians defeated Belisarius at the Battle of Callinicum , which ... Tiberius II Constantine took control of the empire until Justin died in 578 . Meanwhile the Persians ... the Persians at Dara in 586 and recaptured the fortress, but the Persians under Khosrau II of Persia Khosrau II defeated the Byzantines in 604 . This time Persians destroyed the city, but the Byzantines ... more details
Medism can refer to In ancient Greece, imitating or having sympathies or siding with the Achaemenid Persians the ethnonym Mede was often used by the Greeks of the Persians, although it strictly speaking denoted another Iranian tribe, the Medes . It was considered a crime in many ancient Greek states. Themistocles the Athenian was Ostracism ostracized for Medism. Pausanias general Pausanias , the Lacedaimonian hegemon of the Hellenic League in the battle of Platea was accused of Medism by other member states, an accusation which allowed Athens to seize control of the league. Herodotus, mentions state medism of Aegina , Thessaly , Argos , Thebes, Greece Thebes and other Boeotians . A specific form of Hypnotism mixing hypnosis and meditation. Medism or Neo oriental Hypnotism attempt to spiritualise the materialistic and mechanical form of occidental Hypnotism by bringing it in line with oriental mysticism. References Medism Greek collaboration with Achaemenid Persia by David Frank Graf Medism in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries B.C. by Helen Harriet Thompson The Medism of Thessaly, Henry Dickinson Westlake External links http www.nlp book.com medism Hypnotism and Medism disambig Ancient Greece stub Category Greco Persian Wars Category Treason es Medismo fr M disme it Medismo ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 The Congress at the Isthmus of Corinth took place in 481 BC , under the presidency of Sparta , and brought together a number of the Greek city states. The Congress agreed to the end of the Aeginetan War war between Athens and Aegina . The Congress also discussed the threat from the Persian Empire Persians . Athens was unwilling to place her forces under Sparta and its King Leonidas . Gelon , tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily Syracuse wanted high command, but Sparta and Athens refused. However, during the Congress, Gelon had to withdraw due to Carthage s plans to invade Sicily . Finally, Athenian archon and political leader, Themistocles , agreed that Athens navy serve under a Spartan admiral to achieve the unity of the Greek states. In an environment where the Greeks were continually breaking into factions within cities and creating rivalries between cities, Themistocles actions were advanced and far sighted. Nevertheless, Thebes, Greece Thebes and Thessaly were unwilling to support Athens against the Persians, and Crete decided to remain neutral. Related links See Aegina for a historical description in context and Isthmus of Corinth for the location. DEFAULTSORT Congress At The Isthmus Of Corinth Category Military history of Ancient Greece Category Greco Persian Wars Ancient Greece stub sh Kongres na Korintskoj prevlaci sv Kongressen i Korinth ... more details
Infobox Military Conflict conflict Battle of Barbalissos image caption partof the Roman Persian Wars date 253 place Barbalissos , Mesopotamia result Sassanid Empire Sassanid victory territory Sassanids capture Antioch and Dura Europos . combatant1 Sassanid Empire Sassanid Persians combatant2 Roman Empire commander1 Shapur I commander2 Valerian emperor Valerian strength1 Unknown strength2 70,000 casualties1 Unknown casualties2 Unknown Campaignbox Roman Persian Wars The Battle of Barbalissos was fought between the Sassanid Empire Sassanid Persians and Roman Empire Romans at Barbalissos . Shapur I used Roman incursions into Armenia as pretext and resumed hostilities with the Romans. The Romans and Sassanids clashed at Barbalissos. The defeat of this large Roman force lead to the eventual capture of Antioch and Dura Europos in Syria three years later. Sources Kaveh Farroukh, Sassanian Elite Cavalry AD 224 642 coord missing Iraq AncientRome battle stub Category 3rd century conflicts Category Battles of the Roman Persian Wars Barbalissos Category Battles involving the Roman Empire Barbalissos Category Battles involving the Sassanid Empire Barbalissos Category 253 ca Batalla de Barbalissos fa it Battaglia di Barbalissos pl Bitwa pod Barbalissos ru sh Bitka kod Barbalisa ... more details
Not to be mistaken for Andragoras 3rd century BC Andragoras , a Seleucid satrap of around 250 BCE. Andragoras the Persian seems to have been a satrap of Alexander the Great Alexander from 331 BCE in the area of Parthia Justin, xii. 4 . According to Justin, he was selected among the noble Persians, and is at the origin of the Parthian dynasty Afterwards, the Parthian being submitted, Andragoras, chosen among noble Persians was given to them as a prefect . Later, Arsacid Empire Parthian kings found in him their origin Parthis deinde domitis praefectus his statuitur ex nobilibus Persarum Andragoras inde postea originem Parthorum reges habuere. http www.forumromanum.org literature justin texte12.html Justin, xii. 4 Andragoras is not mentioned in the partition of power of the Treaty of Triparadisus in 321 BCE , when instead Philip satrap Philip was named as the ruler of Parthia . This would suggest that Andragoras either fell from favour or died in the meantime. There is a possibility that this Andragoras never existed and is only mentioned by Justin by mistake, since in other classical sources Phrataphernes is usually mentioned as the satrap of Parthian until the time of Philip. DEFAULTSORT Andragoras Category Satraps of the Alexandrian Empire Category 4th century BC people sh Andragora 4. vijek pne. ... more details
cleanup date February 2010 unreferenced date February 2010 Angarum was the name of the royal riding post in the Persian Empire during the Achaemenid period. br In book 8.98, Herodotus talks about the couriers Nothing mortal travels so fast as these Persian people Persian messengers. The entire plan is a Persian invention and this is the method of it. Along the whole line of road there are men they say stationed with horses, in number equal to the number of days which the journey takes, allowing a man and horse to each day and these men will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night. The first rider delivers his despatch to the second and the second passes it to the third and so it is borne from hand to hand along the whole line, like the light in the torch race, which the Greeks celebrate to Vulcan. The Persians give the riding post in this manner, the name of Angarum . The angarum were called pirradazish by the Persian people Persians . See also Royal Road Angaria Roman law Category Postal system Category History of Iran ... more details
Ajami is the Arabic adjective applied to an Ajam, a Persian or relative to Arabic speakers alien. Ajami or Ajam may also refer to Ajam maqam , a musical mode Ajami film Ajami film , a 2009 film Ajam Bahrain , a community of Persians in Bahrain Ajami, Jaffa , a neighborhood in Israel Ajami dialect , a dialect of Persian Ajami script , one of the Arabic based orthographies used for writing African languages. People with the name Fouad Ajami born 1945 , Lebanese born American journalist & academic Disambig ar fr Ajam homonymie ... more details
Information Description Battle of Krtsanisi of 1795 Source Nikoloz Baratashvili N. Baratashvili . Bedi Kartlisa . Tbilisi, 1982. in Georgian Date 1970s Author Severian Maisashvili Permission other versions Non free fair use in Battle of Krtsanisi Non free use rationale Description Battle of Krtsanisi between Georgians and Persians in 1795 Source Nikoloz Baratashvili N. Baratashvili . Bedi Kartlisa . Tbilisi, 1982. in Georgian Article Battle of Krtsanisi Portion full Low resolution low Purpose The image serves as the primary means of visual identification of the subject. Replaceability No replaceable with a free equivalent other information ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Aristonicus Latin Greek polytonic Aristonikos was a tyrant of Methymnae in Lesbos in the 4th century BCE. In 332 BCE , when the navarch s of Alexander the Great had already taken possession of the harbour of Chios , Aristonicus arrived during the night with some privateer ships, and entered it under the belief that it was still in the hands of the Persian people Persians . He was taken prisoner and delivered up to the Methymnians, who put him to death in a cruel manner. Arrian , Anabasis 3.2 Curtius 4.4. SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Aristonicus Of Methymnae Category Ancient Greek tyrants Category Ancient Lesbians Category Alexander the Great ... more details
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