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Bishapur (Middle Persian: Bay-Šāpūr; Persian: بیشاپور,
Bishâpûr) was an
ancient city in
Sasanid Persia (Iran) on the
ancient road
between Persis and Elam...
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Alexander the
Great on Iran. In the
following centuries, a city
named Bishapur was
built on the site of this
ancient city.
Images The
period of the Sasanian...
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Battle of
Bishapur took
place during the
Muslim conquest of Fars, a
province of Persia, in the
seventh century AD. The city was
taken by the Muslim...
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court in his
later years, parti****ting in archery. He died of
illness in
Bishapur, most
likely in May 270.
Shapur was the
first Iranian monarch to use the...
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located at Kangāvar in
Kermanshah Province. The
other is
located at
Bishapur. The
remains at
Kangavar display Persian architectural designs. The plinth's...
- his
victory by
carving the
impressive rock
reliefs in Naqsh-e
Rostam and
Bishapur, as well as a
monumental inscription in
Persian and Gr**** in the vicinity...
- Lactantius,
Shapur I sent
Valerian and some of his army to the city of
Bishapur or
Gundishapur where they
lived in
relatively good conditions.
Shapur used...
- Arab–Sasanian
coinage minted in
Bishapur during the
caliphate of Ali
contains both
Arabic and
Sasanian symbols (image of the
crowned Khosrow II, holy fire...
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reflecting the
history of the province, Iran, and West Asia. The
ruins of
Bishapur, ****polis, and
Firouzabad are all
reminders of this. Arab
invaders brought...
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south Iran,
approximately 6 km (3.7 miles) from the
ancient city of
Bishapur, in the
Shapur cave on the
fourth of five
terraces stands the 3rd-century...
