Parthian Empire - Decline and fall - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Parthian Empire: Encyclopedia - Parthian Empire
The Parthian Empire was the dominating force on the Iranian plateau beginning in the late 3rd century BCE, and intermittently controlled ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parthian Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - Parthian Empire - Decline And Fall
The Armenian compromise served its purpose, but nothing in it covered the deposition of an Armenian king. After 110 CE, the Parthian king...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parthian Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - Parthian Empire - Origins
The Parthians were members of the Parni tribe, a nomadic people of Iranian origin, who spoke an Iranian language and entered the Iranian ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parthian Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - Parthian Empire - Expansion To India
Main article:Indo-Parthian Kingdom Also during the 1st century BCE, the Parthians started to make inroads into eastern territories that h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parthian Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - Parthian Empire - Conflicts With Rome
In 53 BCE, the Roman general Crassus invaded Parthia, but was defeated at the Battle of Carrhae by a Parthian commander called Surena in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parthian Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - Parthian Empire - Government
After the conquest of Media, Assyria, Babylonia and Elam, the Parthians had to organize their empire. The former elites of these countrie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parthian Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - Parthian Empire - The Parthian Empire
Initially, ca. 250 BCE, a king named Arsaces established his dynasty's independence from Seleucid rule in remote areas of northern Iran i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parthian Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - Parthian Empire - Contact With China
The Chinese explorer Zhang Qian, who visited the neighbouring countries of Bactria and Sogdiana in 126 BCE, made the first known Chinese ...   » Read the article