Main articles: Neo-Assyrian Empire and Military history of the Neo-Assyrian EmpireThe Neo-Assyrian Empire is usually considered to have begun with the accession of Adad-nirari II, in 911 BC, lasting u ...
Assyria was also sometimes known as Subartu prior to the rise of the city state of Ashur and, after its fall, from 605 BC through to the late 7th century AD variously as Athura and also referenced as ...
The Saint Thomas Christian community of Kerala, India, who trace their origins to the evangelism of Thomas the Apostle, had a long connection with the Church of the East. The earliest known organized ...
Organization and structure The head of the church, the Patriarch of the Church of the East, also bears the title of Catholicos. Like the churches from which it developed, the Church of the East has an ...
Eastern Rite may refer to:Eastern Catholic churches (most likely) following many Orthodox traditions, but in communion with Rome; used as opposed to the "Latin Rite" containing most Roman CatholicsEas ...
After years of no fighting, Umar now adopted a new offensive policy. The whole-scale invasion of the Sassanid Empire was to begin. The Battle of Nihawand was one of the most decisive battles in Islami ...
Historiography and recent scholarship When Western academics first investigated the Muslim conquest of Persia, they only had to rely on the accounts of the Armenian Christian bishop Sebeos, and accoun ...
Following the conquest of Iran and neighboring regions, Shapur I extended his authority eastwards into the northwestern Indian subcontinent (Pakistan and Afghanistan). The previously autonomous Kushan ...
Conflicting accounts shroud the details of the fall of the Parthian Empire and subsequent rise of the Sassanid Empire in mystery. The Sassanid Empire was established in Estakhr by Ardashir I.Papak was ...
After the Iberian king Pharasmanes I had his son Rhadamistus (r. 51–55 AD) invade Armenia to depose the Roman client king Mithridates, Vologeses I of Parthia (r. c. 51–77 AD) planned to invade and p ...
Before Arsaces I of Parthia founded the Arsacid Dynasty, he was chieftain of the Parni, an ancient Central-Asian tribe of Iranian peoples and one of several nomadic tribes within the confederation of ...
The Seleucid dynasty or the Seleucidae (from Greek: Σελευκ?δαι, Seleukídai) were descendants of Seleucus I Nicator ("the Victor"), who ruled the Seleucid Kingdom centered in the Near East a ...
Partition of Alexander's empire Main article: DiadochiAlexander conquered the Persian Empire under its last Achaemenid dynast, Darius III, within a short time frame and died young, leaving an expansiv ...
In 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, terrorist attacks in Egypt became numerous and severe, and began to target Christian Copts and foreign tourists as well as government officials. Some scholars and authors h ...
Prehistory (pre–3100 BC) Main articles: Prehistoric Egypt and Population history of EgyptThere is evidence of rock carvings along the Nile terraces and in desert oases. In the 10th millennium BC, a c ...
