Table of Contents

• ARSACIDS viii. MILITARY ARCHITECTURE OF PARTHIA

  Krzysztof Jakubiak

  In the western parts of the Parthian empire, i.e., in the Mesopotamian plain, military and defensive systems and fortifications developed under a clearly strong influence of earlier civilizations in the region.

  This Article Has Images/Tables.

• ARŠAK

  Cross-Reference

  See ARSACIDS.

• ARŠĀMA

  E. Bresciani

  name of several Achaemenid notables.

• ARSAMES

  Cross-Reference

  See ARŠĀMA.

• ARSANES

  Cross-Reference

  See NARSE.

• ARSANJĀN

  C. E. Bosworth

  a small town in Fārs on the northeastern fringes of the Zagros mountain massif.  

• ARSANJĀNĪ, ḤASAN

  F. Azimi

  journalist and politician (1922-69).

• ARSEN, KOCOYTỊ

  F. Thordarson

  Ossetic author (1872-1944).

• ARSES

  P. LeCoq

  Greek rendering of an Old Persian name, used as a hypocoristic.

• ARSITES

  A. SH. Shahbazi

  Greek rendering of an Old Persian name.