The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Parthia
- empire
- Persian/Parthian
The Iranian imperial power east of the Euphrates, a loose federation of noble houses and vassal kingdoms facing Rome across Mesopotamia. Gibbon treats it as the great eastern counterweight to the early empire, with cavalry armies and a shifting royal capital.
- Type
- empire
- Style
- Persian/Parthian
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 11
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
The Iranian imperial power east of the Euphrates, a loose federation of noble houses and vassal kingdoms facing Rome across Mesopotamia. Gibbon treats it as the great eastern counterweight to the early empire, with cavalry armies and a shifting royal capital.
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