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In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong, Prauncing their riders bore, the flower and choice Of many provinces from bound to bound-- From Arachosia, from Candaor east, And Margiana, to the Hyrcanian cliffs Of Caucasus, and dark Iberian dales; From Atropatia, and the neighbouring plains Of Adiabene, Media, and the south Of Susiana, to Balsara's haven.

Khuzestan means the land of the Khuzi or the original inhabitants of the region of Susiana. The Arab population was introduced to the region following the Arab/ Islamic invasion of the seventh century CE.

Ahwaz attacks: Is Saudi Arabia taking the war inside Iran?

The Nergal Gate Museum piece is likely to have originated from this latter palace, probably from Room F (the "Susiana" room) (36) or Room G, (37) which show similar scenes and have a similar right-to-left direction of prisoners.

The Assyrian Sculptures from the Nergal Gate Museum at Nineveh before the Islamic State's Attack

An alliance with Elamites (in Anshan and later in Susiana and even upon Babylon's borders) was both necessary and easily obtained by Cyrus.

HOW ANCIENT STATES RISE AND FALL: PRE-DEMOCRATIC REGIME TYPOLOGY, REPRESENTATION, AND DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL BALANCES OF POWER

Chogha Mish II: The development of a prehistoric regional center in lowland Susiana, southwestern Iran; final report on the last six seasons of excavations, 1972-1978.

Chogha Mish II: The development of a prehistoric regional center in lowland Susiana, southwestern Iran; final report on the last six seasons of excavations, 1972-1978

"Style and Information: An Analysis of Susiana Ceramics," JAnthArch 2, pp.

Aegean feasting: a Minoan perspective

Ligozzi shows two very different varieties of iris in a single painting: The "Mourning Iris (Iris susiana) and Spanish Iris (Iris xyphium)" depicts the common Spanish iris, with its many cultivars next to the imposing and exotic mourning iris newly imported from Persia.

The flowering of Florence: the artists commissioned by the Medicis "brought to their subjects not only a masterly technique, but a freshness and originality of style that would have a lasting influence on botanical illustration and the art of naturalistic painting." (Museum Today)

Moreover, widespread abandonment of settlements on Iran's Susiana plain created an uninhabited, 9-mile-wide "buffer zone" between two large Late Uruk communities known as Susa and Chogha Mish.

Civilization and its discontents: why did the world's first civilization cut a swath across the Near East?

Recently, I was able to prove that the Simaskians, who ruled over a vast territory, extending from their capital Ansan in the south to the Caspian Sea in the north, were able to enlarge it considerably to the west when they reclaimed Susa and the Susiana plain from the Sumerians at the beginning of Ibbi-Sin's reign.

The Seal of an Official or an Official Seal? The Use of Court Seals in Old Babylonian Susa and Haft Tepe

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