Parthian Empire

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Timeline of the Parthian Empire

Proper noun

Parthian Empire

  1. (historical) An ancient empire of Western Asia founded as a kingdom by Arsaces I with his 3rd-century-BCE conquest of Parthia (only recently a satrapy of the Seleucid Empire) and subsequently greatly expanded by Mithridates I.
    The Parthian Empire became involved in an extended period of conflict with the Roman Republic and Empire that lasted for three centuries, until the latter eventually prevailed.
    • 1993, Michael Pfrommer, Metalwork from the Hellenized East: Catalogue of the Collections, Getty Publications, page 1:
      He not only seized former Seleucid Iran, but added Mesopotamia to the Parthian Empire.
    • 2005, Angelina Chavez Irapta, Cecilio D. Duka, Introduction to Asia: History, Culture, and Civilization, Rex Book Store, page 39:
      Mithridates, who was one of Arsaces' successors, conquered Persia, Mesopotamia and Armenia, thereby founding the Parthian Empire.
    • 2014, Philip Matyszak, The Roman Empire, Oneworld Publications, page 143:
      The plague contributed to the subsequent weakness of the Roman Empire and killed at least one emperor: Claudius Gothicus, who died in 270. The effect on the Parthian Empire is unrecorded but presumably was equally debilitating.

Synonyms
  • (ancient empire of Western Asia): Arsacid Empire

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See also
  • Arsacid dynasty

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