- The
Nisean horse, or
Nisaean horse, is an
extinct horse breed, once
native to the town of Nisaia,
located in the
Nisaean plains at the foot of the southern...
- The
Ferghana horse is also
known as the "heavenly horse" in
China or the
Nisean horse in the West. The Han
dynasty Emperor Wudi sent a huge
military expedition...
- by
Mithridates I of Parthia, had
overrun upland Media (home of the
famed Nisean horse herd); and
Roman intervention was an ever-present threat. Sidetes...
-
specific horse breed,
known as the
Nisean,
which originated in the
Zagros Mountains for use as
heavy cavalry. The
Nisean would become renowned in the Ancient...
- Jennet, or
Spanish Jennet Mazury Narragansett Pacer Navarrin Neapolitan Nisean horse Norfolk Trotter, also
called the
Norfolk Roadster,
Yorkshire Trotter...
- a plot to kill him. They
surprised him at a
castle in Nisa, home of the
Nisean horses, and
stabbed him to
death in
September 522 BC. One of the seven,...
-
prized possessions taken by
Antony from
Media Atropatene were the
first Nisean horses in Rome. When
Antony died,
these horses fell into the
hands of Augustus...
-
continued into the
Sasanian era.
According to Herodotus' Histories, the
Nisean horse was
considered sacred in the 5th
century BC.
Darius exploited this...
- used
chariots less
frequently and
relied mainly on
cavalry equipped with
Nisean horses.
Their martial equipment included the spear, bow, sword, and dagger...
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Financial Services LLC. 11 May 2018. p. 7.
Retrieved 14
March 2019. Lorde,
Nisean (9
February 2016). "The 5
toughest Canadian undergrad programs in Canada...
