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Definition of Persian Empire

1. Noun. An empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.

Definition of Persian Empire

1. Proper noun. (historical) The empire ruled by the Achaemenid dynasty 550–330 (B.C.E.). ¹

2. Proper noun. (historical) The empire ruled by the Sassanid dynasty 224–651 (C.E.). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Persian Empire

Literary usage of Persian Empire

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"As Light illuminates everything—imparting to each object a peculiar vitality—so the Persian Empire extends over a multitude of nations, and leaves to each ..."

2. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1859)
"Causes of the frequent insurrections and revolts in the Persian empire. I have taken care in relating the seditions that happened in the Persian empire, ..."

3. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with by William Smith (1855)
"Foundation of the Persian Empire by Cyrus, and Overthrow of the Median Empire by the latter. ... Subjection of Thrace and Macedonia to the Persian Empire. ..."

4. Ancient Times, a History of the Early World: An Introduction to the Study of by James Henry Breasted (1916)
"This conquest of the only remaining ancient oriental power rounded out the Persian Empire to include the whole civilized F.ast from the Nile Delta, ..."

5. The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1900)
"The Persian Empire and its Constituent Parts The Persian Empire is an Empire in the modern sense- like that which existed in Germany, and the great imperial ..."

6. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1869)
"CAUSES OF THE FREQUENT INSURRECTIONS AND REVOLTS IN THE Persian Empire. I HAVE taken care, in relating the seditions that happened in the Persian empire, ..."

7. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"... which came by degrees to be included within the limits of the Persian Empire. This empire extended at one time from India on the east to Egypt and ..."

8. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"THE OLD ORIENT AT THE END OF THE Persian Empire We have followed the political history of the Old Orient and have now seen it swallowed up in Alexander's ..."

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