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• BYZANTINE-IRANIAN RELATIONS

  A. Shapur Shahbazi

  From the middle of the 1st century B.C. the Middle East was dominated by the political rivalries of the empires of Rome and Iran.  

• BYZANTIUM

  Jack Martin Balcer

  (Byzantion): contact with the Achaemenids (ca. 513-439 BCE). The Greek polis of Byzantium, in the European province of Thrace (OPers. Skudra), played a pivotal role in the Greco-Persian wars.

• B~ CAPTIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  Cross-Reference

  list of all the figure and plate images in the letter B entries.