Persian monarchy

These became subject to the Persian monarchy with the other Greek cities of Asia.

Indeed, Hecatomnus had not shown at any other time insubordination or disaffection towards the Persian monarchy.

No American human rights campaign sealed the fate of the Persian monarchy, Mr. Bill tells us.

Tensions with Britain date back to the 19th century when the Persian monarchy gave huge industrial concessions to London, which later included significant control over Iran's oil industry.

Nevertheless, in a metonymic sense, the term "Peacock Throne" also referred rhetorically initially in the West to the institution of the Persian monarchy.

Pharnabazos lived well into the 370s BCE, having obtained higher positions in the Persian monarchy than merely the Phrygian satrapship.

It was last shown in Iran in October 1971 during the reign of the former shah as part of commemorations marking 2,500 years of the Persian monarchy.

In 1970, he abolished the Islamic calendar, and the following year there were lavish celebrations in Persepolis to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the ancient Persian monarchy.

Amanat was 24 when he spotted a two-paragraph notice in the Etelaat newspaper in 1966 advertising a contest to design a monument to commemorate 2,500 years of Persian monarchy.

After the defeat of Darius III by Alexander the Great, the Persian monarchy was thrown into turmoil, and Darius was killed.

The Tehran municipal authorities meanwhile reinvigorated a long-running campaign to wrest back control of the 50-acre Qolhak Gardens, given to the British diplomatic mission by the Persian monarchy in the 19th century.

Now and then American officials were to speak of reform in Iran, to urge a constitutional course for the Persian monarchy - at least, as this account documents, during the Kennedy and Carter years.

Relating to this, it has been argued that the royal robe (which Amestris wove for Xerxes in the story) was not just a piece of clothing but a symbol of the Persian monarchy.

Over time the Sun Throne was erroneously referred to as the Peacock Throne, a term that was later appropriated initially by the West as a metonym for the Persian monarchy.

LEAD: Part of the crowd that gathered in Azadi Square in Teheran yesterday to mark the ninth anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and the end of the Persian monarchy.

Since the Iranian Islamic revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 overthrew the Persian monarchy, Iranian religious leaders have worked to galvanize Shiite communities, enhancing Iran's leading role in Shiism.

In 1971, when the Shah of Iran held a great celebration in Persepolis to commemorate the 2,500th anniversary of the foundation of the Persian monarchy by Cyrus the Great, he was vehemently attacked on Islamic religious grounds.

The three important Qajãr monarchs Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, and Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar revived the ancient traditions of the Persian monarchy.

Whatever its cause, the death of Timesitheus put in train a series of events that deprived the Roman Empire of what was probably its best chance of quashing the pretensions of the Persian monarchy before it became fully established.

Following the removal of Timesitheus's presiding genius the organisation of the campaign - presumably under the guidance of Priscus who succeeded him as Praetorian Prefect - the assault on the western heartland of the Persian monarchy fell into disarray.

The Isfahan -Shiraz road once passed directly in front of the archaeological site, but the shah, in preparation for his 1971 celebration of the two thousand five hundredth anniversary of the Persian monarchy, moved the road and evacuated a village next to the site.

The Western world's original distinction between the "West" and the "East" was crystallised in the Greco-Persian Wars of the 5th century BC, when Athenian historians made a distinction between their "Athenian democracy" and that of the Persian monarchy.