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	Parthia - LoveToKnow 1911
		Here Arsaces and his brother Tiridates are derived from the royal house of the Achaemenids, probably from Artaxerxes II.; the young Tiridates is insulted by the prefect Agathocles or Pherecles; in revenge the brothers with five companions (corresponding to the seven Persians of Darius) slay him, and Arsaces becomes king.
		Arsaces was proclaimed king at Asaak in the district of Astauene, now Kuchan in the upper Atrek (Attruck) valley (Isidor.
		His son, Arsaces II., was attacked by Antiochus III., the Great, in 209, who conquered the Parthian and Hyrcanian towns but at last granted a peace.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Parthia (1192 words)

	Parthia
		Parthia was led by the Arsacid dynasty, who reunited and ruled over the Iranian plateau, taking over the eastern provinces of the Greek Seleucid Empire, beginning in the late 3rd century BCE, and intermittently controlled Mesopotamia between ca 150 BCE and 224 CE.
		Parthia (mostly due to their invention of heavy cavalry) was the arch-enemy of the Roman Empire in the east; and it limited Rome's expansion beyond Cappadocia (central Anatolia).
		In 41 BC Parthia, led by Labienus, invaded Syria, Cilicia, and Caria and attacked Phrygia in Asia Minor.
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	e. Parthia. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Arsaces II withstood the attacks of Antiochus III, the Great, in 209; he was followed by Arsaces III (Priapatius, 190–176) and Arsaces IV (Phraates I, 176–c.
		Phraates II (138–127) defeated Antiochus VII in Media (129), and as a result the Seleucids were permanently excluded from the lands east of the Euphrates; but he died in battle fighting the Tochari (the Scythians or Sacae of the Greeks), a tribe driven out of central Asia by the Yuezhi.
		Parthia suffered a collapse and was greatly reduced in territory by Tigranes I of Armenia (c.
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	Arsaces
		Arsaces is a Persian name, which occurs on a Persian seal, where it is written in cuneiform characters.
		The most famous Arsaces was the chief of the Parni, one of the nomadic Scythian or Dahan tribes in the desert east of the Caspian Sea.
		Arsaces, seeking refuge before the Bactrian king Diodotes[?], invaded Parthia, then a province of the Seleucid Empire, about 250 BC (Strabo xi.
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	Parthia (1)
		The borders of Parthia were the Kopet Dag mountain range in the north (today the border between Iran and Turkmenistan) and the Dasht-e-Kavir desert in the south.
		The Persian satrap of Parthia was Hystaspes, the father of the new Persian king; he managed to stand his ground against the Parthian rebels in the city Vishpauzâtish, where he repelled his enemies on March 8, 521.
		In the confusion, Parthia was attacked by the Parni, a nomad tribe from the Central-Asian steppe.
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	Parthians, A History Of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Parthia was an ancient land corresponding roughly to the modern region of Khorasan in Iran.
		In 95 BC the Armenian Tigranes II, a hostage at the court of Mithradates, was placed on the throne of Armenia by his Parthian overlord, and the small kingdoms of northern Mesopotamia--Adiabene, Gordyene, and Osroene--gave allegiance to Mithradates.
		The reign of Vologases II (105/106-147?) and especially that of Vologases III (148-192), the latter not having to dispute the throne with a pretender, could by their length be a sign of a certain stability the country might have experienced.
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	Brief History of Parthia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		During its existence Parthia had mostly hostile relations with Rome in the west and it had to fight off the Sakas and the Ephthalites in the east.
		Parthia and Armenia (the latter had separated from the Seleucid Empire ca190) both claimed the territory of Azerbaijan, called Atropatene, which became a semi-autonomous dependency of Parthia.
		A counter-attack by the Seleucid Demetrius II was repelled and the Seleucid king was captured.
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	History of Iran: Parthian Empire
		After the fall of the Achaemenid Empire, Parthia, northeastern Iran, was governed by the Seleucid kings: a Macedonian dynasty that ruled in the Asian territories of the former Persian Empire.
		In the confusion, Parthia was overrun by the Parni, a nomad tribe from the Central-Asian steppe.
		The Parthian kings -Arsaces I, Arsaces II, Phriapathus, Phraates I- recognized the Seleucid king as their superiors, especially after the campaign of Antiochus III the Great, who reconquered the lost eastern territories between 209 and 204 BCE.
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		King Artabanus I of Parthia [Parents] was born in 185 BC.
		King Tiridates I of Parthia [Parents] was born in 285 BC.
		King Arsaces II(Artabanus) of Parthia [Parents] was born in 250 BC.
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1151 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One of the royal race of the Arsacidae, was proclaimed king of Parthia in place of Phraates IV.
		tiridates II., king of Armenia, was the son of the Armenian king Vologeses.
		He was in the power of the Romans, from whom he escaped, and fled for refuge to Vologeses V, (Arsaces XXX.), king of Parthia.
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	Parthia
		Parthia was led by the Arsacid dynasty, who reunited and ruled over the Iranian plateau, taking over the eastern provinces of the Greek Seleucid Empire, beginning in the late 3rd century BCE, and intermittently controlled Mesopotamia between ca 150 BCE and 224 CE.
		Parthia (mostly due to their invention of heavy cavalry) was the arch-enemy of the Roman Empire in the east; and it limited Rome's expansion beyond Cappadocia (central Anatolia).
		By 129 BC the Parthians were in control of all the lands right to the Tigris, and established their winter encampment on its banks at Ctesiphon, downstream from modern Baghdad.
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	Arsaces - LoveToKnow 1911
		After two years (according to Arrian) he was killed, and his brother Tiridates, who succeeded him and maintained himself for a short time in Parthia, during the dissolution of the Seleucid empire by the attacks of Ptolemy III.
		Tiridates adopted the name of his brother Arsaces, and after him all the other Parthian kings (who by the historians are generally called by their proper names), amounting to the number of about thirty, officially wear only the name Arsaces.
		With very few exceptions only the name AP/AKHI (with various epithets) occurs on the coins of the Parthian kings, and the obverse generally shows the seated figure of the founder of the dynasty, holding in his hand a strung bow.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Arsaces (340 words)

	Parthia - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By 129 BCE the Parthians were in control of all the lands right to the Tigris, and established their winter encampment on its banks at Ctesiphon, downstream from modern Baghdad.
		In 53 BCE, the Roman general Crassus invaded Parthia, but was defeated at the Battle of Carrhae by a Parthian commander called Surena in the Greek and Latin sources, most likely a member of the SГ»rГЄn clan.
		In 41 BCE Parthia, led by Labienus, invaded Syria, Cilicia, and Caria and attacked Phrygia in Asia Minor.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Parthia (2803 words)

	History
		The revolt was led by the brothers Arsaces and Tiridates.
		In 53 B.C. Crassus and over 40,000 Roman troops were annihilated by the Parthian forces of Orodes II and the peoples from the Mediterranean to the Indus understood the strength of Parthia.
		The western border between Rome's dominions and Parthia gradually stabilized on the banks of the Euphrates, but war was always a threat and though major campaigns by the Romans were seen in A.D. 116, 161, 195, 217 and 232, Parthia was never conquered.
	www.parthia.com /parthia_history.htm (1218 words)

	PARTHIA - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
		This drachm of Mithridates II (c123-88 BC) shows the more naturalistic 'early' style; it's obviously not completely naturalistic, with the bull neck and stylised eye, but the face is recognisable as that of an individual.
		On the later tetradrachms the usual type is a figure of the Tyche of a Greek city (probably Seleuceia) presenting a diadem (wreath?) or palm-branch to the reigning king.
		Parthia, a region of Asia, whose inhabitants were called Parthi, ortiginally the most inveterate enemies of the Roman name, and who, under their King Orodes, having laid a snare for Crassus, into which that unfortunate gerneral fell, detroyed him and his whole army in one general slaughter.
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	Parthian Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mithradates' son Phraates II wrested Margiana from the Bactrians and defeated and killed Antiochus VII (brother of the prisoner Demetrius II).
		Parthia itself with Parthaunis as its capital is ruled by the Parni Clan of which King Phraates III is the head.
		Aria is a desert country ruled by Gotarzes of Parthia the youngest son of the King of Kings Phraates III by virtie of his marriage to the Arian princess Asanthe Sohae.
	www.donaldhs.vic.edu.au /home/spotter/Parthian_Empire.html (1951 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Parthia
		Parthia, ancient country of Asia, SE of the Caspian Sea.
		In its narrowest limits it consisted of a mountainous region intersected with fertile valleys, lying S of Hyrcania and corresponding roughly to the modern Iranian province of Khorasan.
		Phraates, kings of Parthia of the dynasty of Arsaces.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Parthia (580 words)

	Arsaces I of Parthia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arsaces I of Parthia was the chief of the Parni, one of the nomadic Scythian or Dahan tribes in the desert east of the Caspian Sea.
		But modern historians believe that he ruled Parthia until 211 BC, when he was succeeded by his son Arsaces II.
		Arsaces is also the person from whom a celebrated descent from antiquity begins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arsaces_I_of_Parthia (388 words)

	Notebook
		Arsaces saw his change: expelling Andragoras about 247 [239?], he and his followers occupied the province of Parthia: the Iranian recovery of Iran had begun.
		Arsaces' hegemony ended with his death during an attack on the neighbouring province of Hyrcania [Wolski: 1959; 1974].
		His son Diodotus II co-operated with the Parthians but was soon murdered by a usurper, Euthydemus, who extended the realm.
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	THE EMPIRE OF ARSACID DYNASTY - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS)©
		Arsaces, Lat.) and Tirdat (Tiridates), with their forces under the command of five other chiefs, occupied the district of upper Tejen.
		Mithradates II the Great made Iran back into a world power, and its relations with Rome in the west and China in the east show the importance of the position it occupied in the political and economic life of the contemporary world.
		With the accession of Vologases II CE 148-92 the Iranian retribution began to be exacted from the Romans.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/ashkanian/parthian.htm (2618 words)

	RSACIDS, THE (Persian AÞka@n^a@n), Parthian dynasty which ruled Iran from about 250 B
		Even Mithridates II, however, soon came up against an internal problem which was eventually to prove a contributory factor in the downfall of the Parthian empire: the power and influence of the Parthian nobility, represented by a few great families, were from now on in a position to oppose the monarch frequently.
		During one of the internal crises, the kingdom was divided in 384 between the pro-Roman Arsaces (ArÞak) III and the pro-Iranian Chosroes (Xosrov) IV.
		Arsaces III died in 390 and the western kingdom became a part of the Roman empire; but the eastern kingdom (Persarmenia) continued to exist.
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	Fabricius Flavius/Parthia
		According to tradition, the first ruler of the Parthians and founder of the Parthian empire was Arsaces I,who had been a governor under Diodotus, king of the Bactrian Greeks, and who revolted and fled westward to establish his own kingdom.
		Strabo says the first Arsaces was a Scythian man with the semi-nomadic Parni tribe, a part of the Dahi, nomads who lived along the Ochus (Tejend or lower Oxus) River, who invaded and conquered Parthia.
		The western border between Rome's dominions and Parthia gradually stabilized on the banks of the Euphrates, but war was always a threat and though major campaigns by the Romans were seen in A.D. 116, 161, 195, 217 and 232.
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	Arsaces II of Parthia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is called Artabanus by early scholars but modern historians prefer "Arsaces".
		He succeeded his father Arsaces I in about 211 BC.
		Arsaces was succeeded by his cousin Phriapatius in 191 BC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arsaces_II_of_Parthia (141 words)

	InfoHub - The Parthians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A Parthian chieftan named Arsaces, who had his tribe outside Parthia, was observing these events and had ambitions of power.
		Parthia had fought a long war with Rome and it had ended in a stalemate.
		Parthia was the only nation that stood up to Rome while Rome was at the height of its power.
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	Parasteshlite.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Strabo also mentions those who claim Arsaces was a Bactrian who escaped from Diodotus after a failed revolt.
		Justin (xli, 1) agrees Arsaces was a Scythian.
		But by 40 B.C. even Rome had to acknowledge a Parthia whose forces, under the joint command of Pacorus I and Q. Labienus, a Roman, had struck directly into the heart of the Roman East and captured the provinces of Asia, Pamphylia, Cilicia, and Syria; even as far south as Petra, Parthia's word was law.
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	PARTHIA - Online Information article about PARTHIA
		Alexander, of Persian origin, and ancestor of Arsaces.
		Hierax, enabled him not only to maintain himself in Parthia, but also to conquer Hyrcania; but he was constantly threatened by Diodotus of Bactria (Justin xli.
		His son, Arsaces II., was attacked by Antiochus III., the Great, in 209, who conquered the Parthian and Hyrcanian towns but at last granted a See also:
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	Media, Persia, Parthia, & Iran
		Since Han China and Rome traded silk for gold by way of Parthia, which endeavored to conceal knowledge of each from each other, any occasions for common knowledge would be extraordinary.
		The brilliant counter-invasion of Iran, from 623-628, by the Emperor Heraclius, however, undid all of this and resulted in the overthrown of Khusro and a period of anarchy.
		In World War II Iranian neutrality, and what may have been Rez.â's sympathy for Germany, led to the Russians and British occupying the country and deposing the Shâh.
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	Qwika - similar:Parthia
		Their realm is also called Parthia, which included the Iranian plateau and intermittently Mesopotamia, from 253 BC until their overthrow by the Sassanid Dynasty in AD 226.
		Mithridates II (the Great), was the king of Parthia from c.
		For the whole of his reign he contended with the rival king Vologases III based in the east of Parthia.
	www.qwika.com /rels/Parthia (1079 words)

	Arsaces II (c. 211 - 191 B.C.)
		Son of Arsaces I and the nephew of Tiridates, he was the second king of Parthia.
		He was frequently called Artabanus I by earlier scholars and, following Justin, Arsaces II could be assigned that name but it is not attested for the second or third ruler of the Arsacid dynasty.
		After the death of Arsaces I, the Seleucids evidently found opportunity to retake former territory and in 211 B.C. Antiochus III secured the allegiance of Artabazanes, ruler of Media Atropatene, then advanced to Ecbatana where he replenished his treasury by looting the temple of Anahita.
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