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	The Splendor of Persia
		For them Persia is far more than a country: it is a place of splendor, where the gods dwell and the ancient heroes still walk in the land, where the remote past and the immediate present live side by side.
		We shall understand Persia best by looking at her long history, where the rise and decline of four great dynasties seems always to follow the same pattern, as though the Persians themselves had remained unchanged through all recorded time, reacting in the same way to the challenges thrown down by succceding dynasties.
		Persia lay at the crossroads between the East and the West, and at the same time the country was almost inaccessible with its huge deserts and barricades of mountains.
	www.parstimes.com /history/splendor_persia.html (5676 words)

	Anshan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anshan is famous for her iron and steel industry complex, called Angang.
		Anshan is home to the Anshan Jade Buddha, the largest Buddha statue made of jade in the world.
		The government of Anshan established a five-year plan in 2000 with the aim of turning the city into a strong modern industrial city with plenty of tourism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anshan (822 words)

	Learn more about Achaemenid dynasty in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They were succeeded by their respective sons Cambyses I of Anshan and Arsames of Persia.
		In 559 BC, Cambyses the Elder was succeeded as King of Anshan by his son Cyrus II the Great.
		Ariaramnes of Persia, son of Teispes and co-ruler of Cyrus I. Cambyses I of Anshan, son of Cyrus I. Arsames of Persia, son of Ariaramnes and co-ruler of Cambyses I
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /a/ac/achaemenid_dynasty.html (565 words)

	Iranica.com - FAÚRS, province in southern Persia.
		While Susa became part of their cultural sphere of influence, Anshan and the other settlements in Fa@rs were abandoned again and their inhabitants returned to their earlier life-style of pastoral nomadism around 2600-2200 B.C.E. In the old Akkadian period, Susiana fell under the dominance of Sargon of Akkad and his successors.
		Anshan recovered again and developed into an important metropolis, covering an inhabited area of about 150 ha with about 20,000 to 30,000 inhabitants at the time of the so-called Kaftari period (Sumner, 1989).
		The discovery of Anshan in Fa@rs, however, gave rise to a different interpretation (de Miroschedji, 1985; Carter; Sumner, 1994), which argues that in the 11th and 10th centuries, that is the period of Elamite weakness, Iranian pastoralists migrated in small groups to Fa@rs, where they intermingled with the Elamite population.
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/v9f3/v9f393a.html (5941 words)

	Persian Empire, Persopolis - Crystalinks
		Persia's earliest known kingdom was the proto-Elamite Empire, followed by the Medes; but it is the Achaemenid Empire that emerged under Cyrus the Great that is usually the earliest to be called "Persian." Successive states in Iran before 1935 are collectively called the Persian Empire by Western historians.
		The kingdom of Anshan and its successors continued to use Elamite as an official language for quite some time after this, although the new dynasts spoke Persian, an Indo-Iranian tongue.
		Meanwhile in Persia a usurper, the Magian Gaumata, arose in the spring of 522, who pretended to be the murdered Bardiya (Smerdis) and was acknowledged throughout Asia.
	www.crystalinks.com /persia.html (2708 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Esfahan - The Sublime Gate of Persia
		Tahmasp I (1514-1576) was an influential Shah of Persia of the Safavid Dynasty.
		In the midst of general anarchy in Persia, he was proclaimed ruler of Khorasan in 1581, and obtained possession of the Persian throne in 1587, at the age of 16 with the help of Morshed Gholi Ostajlou.
		The first decade of his rule over Persia was marked with several important events, such as the surrender of Portuguese holdings in Persia to the Shah and the successful integration of Socotra into the Persian Empire.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=234799 (7197 words)

	The Persians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For convention's sake the name of Persia is here kept for that part of the country's history concerned with the ancient Persian Empire until the Arab conquest in the 7th century AD.
		Centered on the Persian homeland on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf, it stretched from present-day Pakistan in the east to the Balkan Peninsula in the west and from the Persian Gulf in the south to Central Asia in the north.
		A particularly significant accomplishment of his reign was the establishment of Zoroastrianism as the official religion of Persia.
	history-world.org /persians.htm (3316 words)

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		Anshan was the western half of the Persian dynasty, which had been founded by Achaemenes.
		Anshan had passed to Cambyses, the father of Cyrus II.) Following his ascension to the Anshan throne, Cyrus II contrived a plan to subjugate its eastern neighbor.
		Persia was in a position to fight a war at sea, as well, with a resurrected Phoenician fleet, augmented by ships from Cyprus, Cilicia, and Egypt.
	www.periclespress.com /Persia_Darius.html (21048 words)

	Qwika - similar:Ctesiphon
		Khosrau II, Parvez ("the Victorious"), king of Persia, son of Hormizd IV, grandson of Khosrau I, 590 – 628.
		Shahrbaraz (died June 9, 630) was a general, with the rank of Eran Spahbod, in the Persian army under Khosrau II of Persia.
		A coin of Shapur I Shapur I, son of Ardashir I, was king of Persia from 241 to 272.
	www.qwika.com /rels/Ctesiphon (1545 words)

	Iran in Bible Prophecy
		Persia joined the allied forces against Germany in 1943, and thus the World War II Mid-east theatre provided the stage that began the rather brief history of the US-Iranian relationship.
		Elam was bounded on the north by Media and Assyria, on the east and southeast by Persia, and on the south by the Persian Gulf.
		After the decline of Persia, the region of Iran was left open to become one of the first countries to be occupied by the early Islamic empire which burst outward from Arabia in the seventh century.
	focusonjerusalem.com /iraninbibleprophecy.html (11154 words)

	Achaemenid Dynasty
		The Achaemenid Dynsty is for Persia often defined as going back a further 100 years, to around 650 BCE.
		Whether the forefather and name-giver of the dynasty, Achaemenes of Anshan, was a historical figure has often been debated.
		Persia would be annexed into the domains of Alexanxer the Great, from which the Seleucid Dynasty would emerge some 20 years later.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/achaemenid_dyn.htm (269 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Media and Medes
		In these it is called Anshan, and comprised probably a vast region bounded on the north-west by Armenia, on the north by the Caspian Sea, on the east by the great desert, and on the south by Elam.
		During that period the power of Anshan was gradually strengthened by the accession and assimilation of new peoples of Aryan stock, who established themselves in the territory once held by the Assyrians east of the Tigris.
		It was due to the rising influence of another branch of the Aryan race, and in history it is generally known as the transition from the Median to the Persian rule.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10117a.htm (1245 words)

	Anshan - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Anshan, city in northeastern China, in Liaoning Province, near the city of Shenyang.
		Anshan is one of China's leading industrial centers.
		Achaemenes, 7th century bc ruler of the Iranian city of Anshan and the first ruler of what became the Achaemenid Dynasty of ancient Persia.
	encarta.msn.com /Anshan.html (86 words)

	generation 15 ('stamoudgrootouders')
		Artaxerxes I Longimanus [Artakhshassa; Dirazdest], (great-)king of Persia 465-424, born –500, died –424, married:
		Hystaspes of Persia, prince of Anshan, born –550, died ±-521, married:
		Cyrus I, king of Persia or Anshan -640, born –630, married:
	mythopedia.info /ancestry-persia.htm (560 words)

	Cappuccino \| Persian Online Magazine \| Foundations of the Persian Empire
		Persia (Old Pers.: Pārsa-), the historical homeland of Persians since at least the 7th century BC, is bound between the southern stretches of Zagros mountains to the west, Persian Gulf to the south, plain of Karmania to the east, and Media to the north.
		The events that followed the succession of Kabujia’s son, Kurosh II (Cyrus), would determine the future of the Anshan and Persia, as well as most of West Asia.
		He was always very ambitions to be more than the king of Anshan, a desire that led him to conquer and depose his father’s cousin, Arsham, the ruler of Parsa, from his position, thus gaining the control of the Persian “heartland”.
	www.cappuccinomag.com /iranologyenglish/001308.shtml (2290 words)

	Cyrus' Ancestors Helped Build Achaemenid Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His pedigree shows that his ancestors were the kings of a land named Anshan and their origin can be traced back to a person called Achaemenes.
		Teispes ruled the district of Anshan in Elam (north of the Persian Gulf) and tried to maintain a neutral position between the powerful kingdoms of Elam and Assyria.
		Teispes, took the title "King of Anshan" and allied himself with the Elamites in their war against Sennacherib.
	www.payvand.com /news/05/oct/1187.html (315 words)

	Iransaga - Cyrus the Great, The Historical Account
		No definite acts can be traced to Achaemenes, after whom the dynasty was named; but the fact that his memory was highly revered tends to prove that he did in truth mold the Persian tribes into a nation before they stepped onto the stage of history.
		He looked upon himself as the 'king of Anshan' and belonged to the ruling house of Persia, but Cyrus also had Median connections through his mother, whose father was supposedly Astyages, king of the Medes.
		Croesus was first taken to Persia as a prisoner but subsequently lived as a great noble at the royal court.
	www.artarena.force9.co.uk /cyrus2.htm (1371 words)

	Wikinfo \| Achaemenid dynasty
		The founder of this dynasty was supposedly King Achaemenes of Anshan (Hakhamanish).
		He was succeeded by his son Teispes of Anshan.
		After the practice of Manetho, Egyptian historians refer to the period in Egypt when the Achaemenid dynasty ruled as the Twenty-seventh (525 - 404 BC) and Thirty-first Dynasties (343- 332 BC).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Achaemenid (575 words)

	AMBYSES (OPers
		There is no contradiction between Cyrus the Great's claim that his father was king of Anshan and Xenophon's statement that he was king of Persia, for Anshan and Pa@rsa were alternative names for the same country.
		In the spring of that year his army was victorious in a major battle at the city of Pelusium, in the eastern Delta (Herodotus, 3.10).
		According to Herodotus (3.62), he was actually in Syria en route to Persia by the time a royal herald arrived with news of the revolt.
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/v4f7/v4f7a012.html (2492 words)

	Fars - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Persia and Persian both derive from the Hellenized form Persis of the root word Pārs.
		The Zagros Mountains stretch from the northwest to the southeast, dividing the province into two distinct geographical regions.
		Image:Takht-jamshid.jpg Before Islam, two main Iranian leaders named Cyrus The Great and Ardeshir Babakan rose from Anshan and created the vast dynasties of the Achaemenids and Sassanids respectively.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Fars (666 words)

	Daniel: Historical Notes & Related Doctrines:
		In fact, he was in Babylon or possibly in Susa in Persia at a much older age when he recorded this under the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
		To the north was the land of the Medes, and to the south was the land of Anshan.
		In earlier history Anshan was known as the land of Elam, but the Elamites were extinct at this time.
	www.angelfire.com /mi/universe/daniel.glossary.html (4308 words)

	Cyrus the Great Summary
		The sudden emergence of Persia as the dominant power in the Near East is the most striking political fact of the 6th century B.C., while the conquest of Mesopotamia (Egypt was left for Cyrus's son Cambyses) marks the first time that a true Indo-European-speaking people had gained control of the old centers of civilization.
		From his base in Anshan he conquered neighboring Media in alliance with the Babylonian king Nabonidus in 550, overtook Lydia in Asia Minor in 547, defeated resisting areas in the Greek mainland, then returned to Persia and drove his armies eastward as far as India.
		Cyrus had two sons: Cambyses and Smerdis, as well as several daughters, of whom Atossa is significant, as she later married Darius the Great and was mother of Xerxes I of Persia.
	www.bookrags.com /Cyrus_the_Great (3214 words)

	A Commentary on Cyrus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		According to Cyrus, in an inscription written in 539 he was king of Anshan and he traces his decent as king of Persia and their extent of power beyond that city is very vague.
		Harpagus was punished by the king, by being made to eat his own son without realising it and Cyrus was expelled to Persia.
		Kings of Persia were crowned there, and it is also the location of Cyrus's tomb.
	www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk /cyrus.htm (3060 words)

	Anshan - China Tour - Travel to China
		Anshan (or Anzan) (in Persian languagePersian انشان) was also a city and small kingdom in Persia (Iran) during the 1st millennium BC, ruled by the Achaemenid dynasty.
		Persian prince Teispes of AnshanTeispes (675-640) captured the Elamite city of Anshan and called himself "King of the City of Anshan".
		Anshan embarked on a period of conquest in the 6th century BC and became the nucleus of the Persian empire.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Anshan (236 words)

	Cambyses I of Anshan Biography
		He was apparently a great-grandson of its founder Achaemenes of Anshan, grandson of Teispes of Anshan and son of Cyrus I of Anshan.
		His paternal uncle reigned as Ariaramnes of Persia and his first cousin as Arsames of Persia.
		According to Herodotus, Cambyses was "a man of good family and quiet habits".
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Cambyses_I_of_Anshan.html (187 words)

	Dusharm, Dream of Persia - The Achaemenid Dynasty
		At the height of their power, the Achaemenid rulers of Persia ruled over territories roughly encompassing some parts of today's Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Pakistan, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Armenia, Central Asia, Caucasia and the Asian portion of Turkey.
		After the practice of Manetho, Egyptian historians refer to the period in Egypt when the Achaemenid dynasty ruled as the Twenty-seventh (525 BC - 404 BC) and Thirty-first Dynasties (343 - 332 BC).
		Inscriptions indicate that when Teispes died, two of his sons shared the throne as Cyrus I (Kūru), king of Anšān, and Ariaramnes (Ariyāramna "Having the Iranians at Peace"), king of Parsua (later called Pārsa "Persia", hence Fārsi, the native name for modern Persian).
	www.dusharm.com /content/view/7/1 (901 words)

	Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Co-conspirator with Darius the Great in the assassination of the usurper Smerdis (522), Gobryas thereupon gave his daughter to Darius while marrying Darius' sister, and was invested with the wealthy province of Elam.
		With the fragmentation of the Timurid Empire, and the subsequent extension of control over western Persia to the Horde of the Black Sheep, the region between the Persian Gulf and the Zagros Mountains fell into the hands of the Musha'aha'ids.
		A Shiite millenarian movement, the chiefs of the Musha'sha'ids proclaimed themselves to be the Manifestation or Precursor to the Expected One (the hoped-for successor to the line of Shite religious leaders) - and on a less spiritual level they provided governance and defence against the Turkoman Hordes who dominated western Iran in the 15th century.
	www.hostkingdom.net /iran.html (2841 words)

	persia
		It dates from the middle of the 6th century BC when Cyrus II, King of Anshan succeeded in conquering his Lydia and Babylon.
		Wrested from the Caliphs by the Seljuqs in 1040, Persia continued under the rule of the latter until the early 12th century.
		The latter ruled Persia for the rest of the 15th century until falling to the Shi'ite onslaught of the Qizilbashi (red hats).
	www.4dw.net /royalark/Persia/persia.htm (302 words)

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