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| | Kingdom of Persis |
 | | Persis was the heart of the old Achaemenid Persian empire and the center of Persian culture, religion and language. |
 | | Mithradates II was able to incorporate Persis as a sub-kingdom of the Parthian empire during the early 1st century BC, though Persis continued to mint its own distinctive series of coins which gradually took on some of the appearance of Parthian coins. |
 | | Persis was eventually able to defeat the Arsacids and, under Ardashir I, found the Sassanian empire, which was to become Rome's, and later Byzantium's, greatest foe until the appearance of Islam and the Arab conquest of the Middle East during the 7th century AD. |
| americanhistory.si.edu /collections/numismatics/parthia/frames/persis.htm (147 words) |
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