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Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.
The Allied fleet defeated the demoralized remnants of the Persian fleet in the Battle of Mycale — on the same day as Plataea, according to tradition.
This theory therefore utilises Herodotus ' suggestion that after Marathon, the Persian army re-embarked and tried to sail around Cape Sounion to attack Athens directly ; however, according to the first theory this attempt would have occurred before the battle ( and indeed have triggered the battle ).
In 1785, Russia and the eastern Georgian kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti ( which was devastated by Turkish and Persian invasions ) signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, according to which Kartl-Kakheti received protection from Russia.
Its successor, the Kingdom of Aksum, emerged around the 1st century BC or 1st century AD and grew to be, according to the Persian philosopher Mani described Axum as one of the four greatest civilizations in the world, along with China, Persia, and Rome.
525 BC, when, according to Herodotus, the tyrant Polycrates of Samos was able to contribute 40 triremes to a Persian invasion of Egypt.
After a few more years of fighting, in 387 BC the Peace of Antalcidas was established, according to which all Greek cities of Ionia would return to Persian control, and Persia's Asian border would be free of the Spartan threat.
As against this, Arnold J. Toynbee discusses the issue of two Persian names Kambujiya ( Cambyses ) as well as Kurush ( Cyrus ) elaborately and regards them both as derived from the two Eurasian nomads, the Kambojas and the Kurus mentioned in the Sanskrit texts and who, according him, had entered India and Iran in the Volkerwanderung of 8th and 7th century BCE.
Also according to Herodotus ( III. 139 ), Darius, prior to seizing power and " of no consequence at the time ", had served as a spearman ( doryphoros ) in the Egyptian campaign ( 528 – 525 BCE ) of Cambyses II, then the Persian Great King.
The phoenix, or phenix (, Persian: ققنوس, Arabic: العنقاء أو طائر الفينيق, Chinese: 鳳凰 or 不死鳥, Turkish: Tuğrul ), Hebrew: פניקס ), is a mythical sacred fire bird that can be found in the mythologies of the Arabian, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, Turks, Indians and ( according to Sanchuniathon ) Phoenicians / Canaanites.
In reply, according to one version, Shapur was said to have forced Valerian to swallow molten gold ( the other version of his death is almost the same but it says that Valerian was killed by being flayed alive ) and then had the unfortunate Valerian skinned and his skin stuffed with straw and preserved as a trophy in the main Persian temple.
* Mithridates ( soldier ) ( d. 401 BC ), Persian soldier who killed Cyrus the Younger in 401 BC, according to Plutarch.
* Theban leader Pelopidas goes on an embassy to the Persian king Artaxerxes II and induces him to propose a settlement of the Greek states ' disputes according to the wishes of the Thebans.
In 367 BC Pelopidas went on an embassy to the Persian king and induced him to prescribe a settlement of Greece according to the wishes of the Thebans.
In 614, Tiberias was the site, where during the final Jewish revolt against the Byzantine Empire, parts of the Jewish population supported the Persian invaders ; the Jewish rebels were financed by Benjamin of Tiberias, a man of immense wealth ; according to Christian sources, during the revolt Christians were massacred and churches destroyed.
Its name in Persian means Job's spring due to the legend according to which Job ( Ayub ) visited this place and brought forth a spring of water by the blow of his staff on the ground.
For many decades, heraldic authors have believed that the term may have arisen from the Persian word gol " rose " ( coming to Europe via Muslim Spain or brought back by returning Crusaders ), but according to Brault there is no evidence to support this derivation.
Control of the waterway and its use as a border was a source of contention between Iran and the predecessor of the Iraqi state since a peace treaty signed in 1639 between the Persian and the Ottoman empires, which divided the territory according to tribal customs and loyalties, without attempting a rigorous land survey.
Many instruments ' frets are not spaced according to the semitones of equal temperament, including the Appalachian dulcimer ( with frets in a diatonic scale ), the Turkish Saz ( with frets spaced according to the Makam system of Turkish folk music ), the Arabic Buzuq ( with frets spaced according to the Arabic maqam system ), and the Persian setar and tar ( with frets spaced according to the Persian Dastgah system ), and the Turkish tanbur ( with as many as 5 frets per semitone, to cover all of the commas of the Turkish Makam system ).

according and etymology
St. Gregory VII having, indeed, abridged the order of prayers, and having simplified the Liturgy as performed at the Roman Court, this abridgment received the name of Breviary, which was suitable, since, according to the etymology of the word, it was an abridgment.
rheology ) is the Greek word for " to stream, and to the etymology of Rhea according to Plato's Cratylus.
The veterans at first wore a combination of black police uniforms and tan army uniforms ( because of shortages ), which, according to one etymology, inspired the nickname Black and Tans.
The etymology of the name is contested, according to one view, the name Odysseus derives from the verb (), meaning " to be wroth against ', ' hate ", suggesting that the name could be rendered as " the one who is wrathful / hated ".
F. R. Schröder has proposed a fourth etymology according to which yggdrasill means " yew pillar ", deriving yggia from * igwja ( meaning " yew-tree "), and drasill from * dher-( meaning " support ").
The Arabic etymology, Ibrahim al-Khalil () means " Abraham the friend ", according to Islamic teaching signifying that, God chose Abraham as his friend.
In gratitude, Zeus placed her in the heavens as the constellation Ursa Minor ; according to folk etymology and the myth, Kynosoura is from κυνὸς οὐρά " dog's tail.
An alternate etymology suggested by Prof. Pischel derives Rudra (" the Red, the Brilliant ") from a lost root rud -, " to be red " or " to be ruddy ", or according to Grassman, " to shine ".
This is inferred from the etymology of the name, which, according to one theory, is resolvable into two Gaelic terms signifying a castle or fort in the copse or brushwood.
Folk etymology indicates that the word means " wise fool "; consequently " sophomoric " means " pretentious, bombastic, inflated in style or manner ; immature, crude, superficial " ( according to the Oxford English Dictionary ).
The words pentacle and pentagram ( a five-point unicursal star ) are essentially synonymous, according to the Online Oxford English Dictionary ( 2007 revision ), which traces the etymology through both French and Italian back to Latin, but notes that in Middle French the word " pentacle " was used to refer to any talisman.
The etymology of the term is uncertain ; the commonly mentioned derivation from Bokhara is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, uncertain.
Because many cities in the region later received the appendix-inge, the name, according to this etymology, evolved to Vles-inge.
There are at least two explanations for the etymology of the name Jeddah, according to Jeddah Ibn Helwaan Al-Qudaa ' iy, the chief of the Quda ' a clan.
The etymology of byssus, according to the OED2, began with Biblical Hebrew būts or butz בוץ meaning ' a fibre or fabric distinguished for its whiteness ', cognate with Aramaic ܒܘܫ bus and Arabic باض bāḍa ' to be white '.
yll " star ", but according to Stuart Edward Mann, this last version is a folk etymology, which is based on the traditional equation.
Similar to the StarCraft etymology, the term is often altered according to the units involved, such as the Rhino tank rush of Red Alert 2, the Flash tank rush of Total Annihilation, the Samurai Ship rush of Total War: Shogun 2 and the Pitbull rush of Command & Conquer 3.
Current Polish etymology ( according to Rospond, Rymut and Malec ) clearly indicates a nickname Rzepa ( Polish name of turnip ), or the name of turnip itself, as the town name origin.
The etymology of the toponym Narva is not clear, but according to the most common theory it comes from a Vepsian word narva meaning waterfall or stream.
The first syllable is shown long and stressed ( Trēverī ) in Latin dictionaries, according to its Celtic etymology, thus giving the Classical Latin pronunciation.
The cucking stool, according to Blackstone, eventually became known as a ducking stool by folk etymology.
The differentiation between kamatz gadol and kamatz katan is made according to purely phonetic rules without regard to etymology, which occasionally leads to spelling pronunciations at variance with the rules laid down in Biblical Hebrew grammar books.
The four primary aicmí are, with their transcriptions in manuscript tradition and their names according to manuscript tradition in normalized Old Irish, followed by the their Primitive Irish sound values, and their presumed original name in Primitive Irish in cases where the name's etymology is known:
* according to a traditional etymology The word ` ajam comes from the Semitic root `- j-m. Related forms of the same root include, but are not limited to:

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