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  • noun Plural form of Achaemenid.

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  • Alexander, Mr. Briant declares, was neither a visionary multiculturalist nor a deranged killer: "Simply, he governed like a statesman, using the administrative traditions previously adopted and adapted by the Achaemenids, as well as introducing some Graeco- Macedonian innovations."

    The Greatest of Them All Tom Holland 2011

  • The Achaemenids, a Persian dynasty whose rule had stretched from the Aegean to the Hindu Kush, had demonstrated in unprecedented fashion just how vast an empire might be.

    The Greatest of Them All Tom Holland 2011

  • There are also the rock cut tombs of Achaemenids Artaxerxes 2nd and 3rd, one of whom was the husband of Queen Esther. (we'll never be sure which it was).

    Eric Lurio: Notes on the Iran/Persia Conflict: A Travelogue -- Part Four 2009

  • The Sassanid Empire went back to the idea of a united Aryan nation as it was before the Medes and the Achaemenids Empires.

    The US Government and Kurds 2008

  • Susa was an ancient city in the Elamite, Achaemenids, Parthian and Sasanian dynastic empires of Iran, located about 150 miles east of the Tigris River in Iranian province of Khuzestan.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Jan 2008

  • Susa was an ancient city in the Elamite, Achaemenids, Parthian and Sasanian dynastic empires of Iran, located about 150 miles east of the Tigris River in Iranian province of Khuzestan.

    Susa Site to be Spared! Jan 2008

  • The Achaemenids had not acquired a multiethnic empire by waging holy war.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • The Achaemenids had not acquired a multiethnic empire by waging holy war.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • The highways of the Achaemenids — yes, and which before them had trembled to the tramplings of the myriads of the godlike Dravidian conquerors.

    The Metal Monster 2004

  • In the early 7th century, one of their chiefs, Achaemenes (Hakhamanish) founded a dynasty, the Achaemenids, and won independence from the Neo-Elamite kings.

    d. The Medes and the Persians 2001

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