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EGLANTINE
Cross-Reference
See NASTARAN.
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EGYPT
Multiple Authors
relations with Persia and Afghanistan.
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EGYPT i. Persians in Egypt in the Achaemenid period
Edda Bresciani
The last pharaoh of the Twenty-Sixth dynasty, Psamtik III, was defeated by Cambyses II in the battle of Pelusium in the eastern Nile delta in 525 B.C.E.; Egypt was then joined with Cyprus and Phoenicia in the sixth satrapy of the Achaemenid empire.
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EGYPT ii. Egyptian influence on Persia in the Pre-Islamic period
Philip Huyse
In the fields of artistic work, architecture and sculpture, the Persians do not seem to have had any lasting impact on Egyptian tradition, during either both Achaemenid occupations of Egypt, or the short-lived presence of the later Sasanians.
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EGYPT iii. Relations in the Seleucid and Parthian periods
Heinz Heinen
It remains difficult to ascertain the proportion of ethnic Persians who survived the transition from Achaemenid to Hellenistic rule in Egypt or who came to that country after the conquest by Alexander.
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EGYPT iv. Relations in the Sasanian period
Ruth Altheim-Stiehl
The occupation of Egypt, beginning in 619 or 618, was one of the triumphs in the last Sasanian war against Byzantium. Ḵosrow II Parvēz had begun this war in retaliation for the assassination of the Byzantine emperor Mauricius.
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EGYPT v. Political And Commercial Relations In The Islamic Period
Cross-reference
See under FATIMIDS; AYYUBIDS; IL-KHANIDS DYNASTY.
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EGYPT vi. Artistic relations with Persia in the Islamic period
Jonathan M. Bloom
Although direct evidence of artistic links between Persia and Egypt before the Mongol invasion of the Near East in the 13th century is limited, surviving works of art suggest that transfer of artistic ideas resulted from the movement of artisans and their works.
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EGYPT vii. Political and religious relations with Persia in the modern period
Shahrough Akhavi
The beginnings of modern diplomatic relations between Egypt and Persia may be dated from 1847, when Mīrzā Taqī Khan Amīr(-e) Kabīr signed the second treaty of Erzurum with the Ottomans.
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EGYPT viii. Egyptian cultural influence in Persia, modern times
EIr
Egypt, together with Turkey and the Caucasus, was one of the major sources of cultural and political influences in Persia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.