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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient country of southwest Asia corresponding to modern northeast Iran. It was included in the Assyrian and Persian empires and the Macedonian empire of Alexander the Great. A Parthian kingdom lasted from c. 250 BC to AD 226, reaching the height of its influence and landholdings at the beginning of the first century BC. Parthian soldiers were renowned as horsemen and archers.
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- proper noun a region in northeastern
Iran - proper noun territories corresponding to the empire ruled by dynasts from Parthia.
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- noun an ancient kingdom in Asia to the southeast of the Caspian Sea; it dominated southwestern Asia from about 250 BC to AD 226
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III. i--- In this theatre in Parthia, continually cut in production, Ventidius refrains from gaining as good good a feat for Rome over a Parthians glory contingency be indifferent for Antony!
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III. i--- In this theatre in Parthia, continually cut in production, Ventidius refrains from gaining as good good a feat for Rome over a Parthians glory contingency be indifferent for Antony!
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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Or, He shall have intelligence, both from the eastern and northern parts, that the king of Parthia is invading his kingdom.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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South of this Parnian country lies what is now the province of Khorasan, mountainous; then a Seleucan satrapy known as Parthia; -- also inhabited by Turanians, but of a little more settled sort; the satrap was Andragoras, who, like Diodotus in
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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On one particular occasion, Harry said to him: "I'm riding a horse called Parthia and there's a good chance that we'll win the Derby."
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"Parthia," they said, "had indeed degenerated from her former self to have requested a king to be sent her who belonged to another world and had had a hostile civilization ingrained into him."
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They had traveled from the Persian homeland north to Media, chased Darius east across Parthia and taken a detour into Hyrcania on the Caspian Sea.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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His plan was to move east into the deserts and mountains of Parthia, Bactria, Sogdiana, and the borderlands of India to wage a guerrilla campaign against the Macedonians.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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This suggests that Romans themselves probably stirred up one of the myriad subject peoples of Parthia to themselves revolt, since the Parthian Great Kings spent basically all of their reigns in the saddle, or that Nero was paying them an enormous amount to stay out, or that the Romans got insanely lucky, and the Great King was involved somewhere else, either warring in the East or facing a civil war of his own.
Matthew Yglesias » Toy Drives Checking Immigration Status of Children 2009
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His trek through Hyrcania, Parthia, Bactria, Sogdiana, India, Gedrosia, and Carmania had covered thousands of miles over blistering deserts, towering mountains, and steaming jungles.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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