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From Iranian Myth to Folk Narrative: The Legend of the Dragon-Slayer and the Spinning Maiden in the Persian Book of the Kings.(Critical Essay)
; ...of wars that Ardasir I had fought in the first decades of the third century CE that put an end to the Parthian empire of the Arsacids, while annihilating their various semiautonomous vassal states, aiming at a more centralized Iran. The war against the worm...
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Kuwabara's misleading thesis on Bukhara and the family name An. (Kuwabara Jitsuzo)
; ...the surname Li bestowed upon him. (4) It is not possible to put much reliance on this passage of the Xin Tang shu. That the Arsacids were descendants of Huang Di (the Yellow Emperor) and so on is a farfetched opinion of the first order. Also the assertion...
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NAASR, Harvard University Press Publish Collected Articles of James R. Russell
; ...the pre-Christian religion of the majority of Armenians was, despite local features, the Zoroastrian faith of the Parthian Arsacids. Other articles are concerned with witchcraft and magic, heretical beliefs condemned by the Armenian Church, Armenian lyric...
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Prof. Seta Dadoyan Tackles Myth Vs. Reality of Armenian Identity at Columbia University Lecture
; ...first Armenian state as that of the Artaxids with its king Tigranes III (20 BC-1 AD) whose power extended as far as Egypt. The Arsacids were the second dynasty (53 AD-429 AD), and the Bagratids (884-1045) were the third. In 1198 the Rubinians established the...
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(book review)
; ...independent at times, particularly under the dynasties of the Ervandids (Orontids), the Artashesians (Artaxids), the Arshakunis (Arsacids), and, during the ninth and tenth centuries, the Bagratunis (Bagratids). At other times, when surrounded by powerful empires...
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The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics.(Book Review)
; ...position in the colophons of Mandaean texts, receiving his revelations from the First Life, his Father (p. 171). Active under the Arsacids in the early third century, Zazai's position as the historical founder is diminished over time in that Mandaeanism is an eternal...
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