To the Persians and Arabs the word Hindu covered both the lands watered by the Sindhu and the people living there and beyond. |
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The citizens of Ahmadabad are mixed races of Dravidians, Aryans, Persians, Arabs and Africans. |
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Croesus asks the Delphic oracle what will happen if he attacks the Persians. |
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Arab rule gave way to the Persians, who controlled the area until conquered by the Turkic Ghaznavids. |
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The Romans, Gauls, Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks and Persians all cherished the egg as a symbol of the universe. |
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Instead, we are offered new civilizations in the forms of the Iroquois, the Americans, the Indians, the Persians, the Dutch, and the Lakota. |
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Beginning around 2000 b.c., pre-Hittites, Hittites, Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans had lived or ruled in the region. |
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The Persians did not worship wood and stone with the Greeks, nor the ibis and ichneumon with the Egyptians. |
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There is a mixture of cultures in the Swahili culture, from like the Persians, the Chinese, the Yemenese. |
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After the decline of the Hittites, the region was colonized by the Greeks, and later by the Persians after the Persian Wars. |
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The Himyarites had by this time formed an alliance with the Persians and defeated the Ethiopian invaders. |
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The Persians were taken in and sent their navy into the narrow strait between Athens and the island of Salamis. |
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The Byzantines and Persians were the first to feel the pressure of Arab raids. |
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Sometimes they meet and merge, as the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern systems did when the Greeks and Persians began to war with each other. |
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After the victory over the Persians in 479 B. C. the Greeks offered this tripod at the oracle of Delphi, from where it was brought to Byzantium. |
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So let Your Majesty issue this order and sign it, and it will be in force, a law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed. |
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He knew that if Esther refused, she too would perish because the law of the Medes and Persians showed no favoritism. |
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Incursions into the country, successively by the Persians, Byzantines, Mongols and Turks are all said to have left their mark on the cuisine. |
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In the first decade of the sixth century, the Persians invaded Thrace and made it part of the satrapy of Skudra. |
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They fought the Roman legions and the Sassanid Persians, and in most cases lost. |
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To be fair, actually, that credit should go to the American shorthair fanciers who bred some of their cats to Persians. |
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He doesn't place his Siamese kitten along with the Persians, apparently for fear of cross-breeding. |
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They also used lead-based powder to whiten their complexions as the ancient Persians did. |
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Between the 4th and 19th centuries, Armenia was conquered and ruled by, among others, Persians, Byzantines, Arabs, Mongols, and Turks. |
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The Medes and the Persians were subsequently united by marriage connections. |
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Ancient Persians believed that pomegranate seeds made their warriors invincible. |
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For instance, it is not known exactly how the Norooz festival was viewed in terms of religious beliefs by ancient Persians. |
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The encounter with Persians and Arabs infused a new vitality into Indian music, resulting in the sublime form of khayal. |
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At different times it has been occupied by Persians, Byzantines, Arabs, Mongols, Turks and Russians. |
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Arabs, Syrians, Persians and other Orientals exhibited great interest in this subject even before this period in history. |
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The Greeks seem to have been fascinated by the splendid costumes of the Persians and the bodies they concealed. |
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The Saluki and the horse are prized possessions of the Arabs and the Persians. |
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Comprising two of Asia's major mountain ranges, the mountains of Central Asia were known to early Persians as the roof of the world. |
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The ancient Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans and East Indians used it to treat certain illnesses. |
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These groups included the Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, and Romans. |
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More than 4,000 years ago, the ancient Assyrians, Persians, and Babylonians used mastiffs wearing spiked collars to attack their enemies. |
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First the Mycenaeans grabbed it, then the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians and Persians owned it. |
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But, over the centuries, Persians, Greeks, Parthians, Kushans, and White Huns invaded India. |
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In the centre, the Persians forced the Greeks back, but were then probably taken in both flanks when the victorious Greek wings wheeled inwards. |
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Having disposed of the tyrant, Heraclius recaptured Byzantium's lost eastern provinces in a brilliant military campaign against the Persians. |
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From the 450s onward, Pericles rebuilt the city of Athens, a city ravaged by years of wars with the Persians. |
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The League was successful in its immediate aim of driving the Persians from the northern Aegean. |
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In ancient times, present-day Tajikistan was a part of the empire of the Achaemenian Persians. |
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Greeks, Persians, Medians, Sassanians, Parthians warred there. |
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The main portion of the Greek army arrived in the city before the Persians could land and seeing the forces arrayed against them, they sailed away. |
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The Persians marched across the Attic peninsula and burned Athens. |
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Misfortune and politics place them between the Arabs, Turks and Persians. |
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After all, the laws of the Medes and Persians never changed at all. |
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The prominent use of Persians in exotic shorthair breeding programs ensures the continued creation of exotics that carry a recessive gene for long hair. |
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I've also had an expert opinion on my cat from a leading authority on Persians, who was posing as an odd-job man at my parents' house at the time. |
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Once Alexander had destroyed the professional core of Persians and mercenary Greeks at Issus, Darius had to rely on levies from outlying satrapies. |
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I shall not dwell on ancient history, on the conquests of that part of the world by the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Arabs, the Crusaders. |
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He fought first the Theban Greeks, then the Persians, then the Bactrians. |
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Others were happy to see Philip as a Greek, and as a man who could restore Greece to a position in which it could face the real barbarians, and in particular the Persians. |
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The Persians who live in Los Angeles describe Meybodi as the Larry King of Iran, but he's more dignified than that, a throwback to an earlier age of TV talk shows. |
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And this temple was set up largely to commemorate the victory over the Persians who had by definition transgressed the divine limits in their attempt to conquer the Greeks. |
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Lawler notes that in the Zoroastrian religion of the Persians, the rooster was of the utmost importance. |
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The tribute was originally designed as a revenue source to pay the wages of the oarsmen who kept the Persians away. |
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The triple line of fortifications constructed on the land side in the fifth century had held off attacks by Goths, Persians, Avars, Bulgars, Russians, and especially Arabs. |
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Thus, Exotic shorthairs, a Burmese or two, and even the occasional Persians can be found among the topmost branches in the family trees of many Scottish folds. |
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The galleys with which the Greeks fought the Persians in classical times were not so different from those with which the Venetians fought the Ottomans 2,000 years later. |
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Why they stayed there so long is because the Babylonians and later the Persians and the Ottomans made life in that part of the world relatively easy. |
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In the mid-sixth century the refugee Pactyes supplicated the Cymaeans, who found themselves threatened with war unless they handed him over to the Persians. |
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Another misconception is that Iranians are Arabs, when most Iranians are Persians who speak Farsi, an Indo-European language, which uses Arabic script. |
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Herodotus found the practice among the Pontic Scythians, and, according to the Maccabees, the ancient Persians tore away the scalp of one of their prisoners. |
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Persians are the most mellow, sedentary and equable cats ever created. |
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Greeks, Persians, Medians, Sassanians, and Parthians warred there. |
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They include Bravanese, Bantus, Bajuni, Ethiopians, Indians, Persians, Italians and Britons. |
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The Persians were defeated by a primarily Athenian naval force at the Battle of Salamis, and in 479 defeated on land at the Battle of Plataea. |
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Were Herat to fall to the Persians, this would give the Russians a crucial and dangerous toe-hold in western Afghanistan. |
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After Justinian died in 565, his successor, Justin II refused to pay the large tribute to the Persians. |
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But underground classes have Persians getting with the beat. |
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The Achaemenid Persians ruled over heterogeneous populations who worshipped different gods, often representing them anthropomorphically. |
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After the Persians withdrew from Basra in 1779, Kuwait continued to attract trade away from Basra. |
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Indeed, in the Greek of this period 'barbarian' is often used expressly to refer to Persians, who were enemies of the Greeks in this war. |
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According to the Persians best informed in history, the Phoenicians began the quarrel. |
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It fell to the Persians again in 343 BC after the last native Pharaoh, King Nectanebo II, was defeated in battle. |
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Though the trade was largely dominated by the Gujurati, other groups such as the Turks, Persians, Armenians, Tamils and Abyssinians traded there. |
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For example, his capture of Ormuz in 1507 against the Persians was accomplished with a fleet of seven ships. |
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Roman called it as Serendivis and by Arabs as Serandib and the Persians as Serendip, the word Serendipity is derived from this word. |
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The Arabs and the Persians had introduced and made common the most detestable forms of vice. |
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The Baluch, ethnically closer to the Persians of Iran, live in Char Burjak, Kung, Chakhansoor, and Zaranj districts, and most are farmers. |
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The Portuguese returned to the Persian Gulf in the following year as allies of Afrasiyab, the Pasha of Basra, against the Persians. |
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Perfumery, as the art of making perfumes, began in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, and was further refined by the Romans and Persians. |
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Abu Sa'id's territories had subsequently collapsed due to a fierce civil war between the Persians and Mongols. |
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He launched an expensive campaign against the Persians, which ended in defeat and his own death. |
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Dorper sheep are descended from Blackhead Persians, a hardy breed with high natural resistance against most diseases, including bluetongue. |
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The triumphant Persians also managed to recover the great fortress of Lenkoran, on the Caspian shore. |
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When Umar was assassinated by Persians in 644, the election of Uthman as successor was met with increasing opposition. |
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Constantly under attack, it distanced Western Europe from Persians, Arabs, Seljuk Turks, and for a time, the Ottomans. |
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The Persians settlers had by the 6th century BC, mixed with the native Elamite population. |
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Near the end of his life, Alexander and Aristotle became estranged over Alexander's relationship with Persia and Persians. |
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Aeschylus wrote a play about the defeat, The Persians, which was performed in a Greek theatre competition a few years after the battle. |
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After some initial battles while subjugating the Greeks of the Ionian coast, the Persians determined to invade Greece proper. |
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In the east, the Ottoman Turks took Baghdad from the Persians in 1535, gaining control of Mesopotamia and naval access to the Persian Gulf. |
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Lebanese palaces are very diverse architecturally, being influenced by Arabs, Italians, French, Persians, Turkish and East Asians. |
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According to Muqaddasi, Persians formed the majority of Aden's population in the 10th century. |
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Diocletian expelled the Persians who plundered Syria and conquered some barbarian tribes with Maximian. |
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Within several decades, Heraclius completed a holy war against the Persians by taking their capital and having a Sassanid monarch assassinated. |
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Justin's successor, Tiberius II, choosing between his enemies, awarded subsidies to the Avars while taking military action against the Persians. |
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The Athenian and Plataeans forces beat the Persians for the first time on land. |
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The Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Hellenists, and Romans were all tools of God to punish the stiff-necked people of God. |
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Eventually the Government of British India overpowered Bahrain when the Persians refused to protect it. |
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In 626 Constantinople, by far the largest city of early medieval Europe, withstood a combined siege by Avars and Persians. |
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From Halicarnassus, Alexander proceeded into mountainous Lycia and the Pamphylian plain, asserting control over all coastal cities to deny the Persians naval bases. |
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The city also lost the free grain shipments in 618, after Egypt fell first to the Persians and then to the Arabs, and public wheat distribution ceased. |
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There were no advances in military technology, until, from the mechanical arm action of a slinger, the Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Persians, Chinese, etc. |
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The Khazars dominated the Black Sea steppe during the 8th century, trading and frequently allying with the Byzantine Empire against Persians and Arabs. |
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Due to incurring heavy losses against the Persians, and on the advice of his mother, Alexander attempted to buy the Germanic tribes off, so as to gain time. |
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During the 6th century BC, all of Anatolia was conquered by the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the Persians having usurped the Medes as the dominant dynasty in Iran. |
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Ancient peoples in the region included Galatians, Hurrians, Scythians, Assyrians, Medes, Persians, Hattians, Cimmerians, Ionian Greeks, the Mongols and Arabs. |
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After Troy's fall the Persians considered the Greeks to be their enemy. |
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Valens was in Asia with his main field army, preparing for an assault on the Persians, and redirecting the army and its logistic support would have required time. |
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Later many of them returned to their homeland after the subsequent conquest of Babylonia by the Persians seventy years later, a period known as the Babylonian Captivity. |
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A few temporarily successful revolts against the Persians marked the fifth century BC, but Egypt was never able to permanently overthrow the Persians. |
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The Persians also introduced Persian gardens into mosque designs. |
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Shia Persians form large communities in Manama and Muharraq. |
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The Persians used mail armour as well as mail and plate armour. |
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Tang Chinese soldiers and pirates enslaved Koreans, Turks, Persians, Indonesians, and people from Inner Mongolia, central Asia, and northern India. |
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These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east. |
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Writing letters to the Persians and Ottomans, Al Khalifas agreed to place Bahrain under the latter's protection in March due to offering better conditions. |
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The brouhaha was initially triggered by the actions of Median ruler Astyages, and was quickly spread to other provinces, as they allied with the Persians. |
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Reade identifies the motivation for Median attacks on Assyria as similar to that behind previous incursions by Guti and Kassites, and subsequent invasions by Persians. |
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As the most extensive interactions the Ancient Greeks had with any outsider was with the Persians, the term persisted, even long after the Persian rule in Greece. |
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After three days, unable to persuade his men to back down, Alexander gave Persians command posts in the army and conferred Macedonian military titles upon Persian units. |
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