From Sumer, the nomadic tribes spread the breed across the Middle East from Egypt and Persia, to as far east as Afghanistan and India, and as far south as Sudan.

From the Middle East, India, Persia, and Central Asia the Tang were able to acquire new ideas in fashion, new types of ceramics, and improved silver-smithing.

The fourth century Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus ( 325 / 330 – after 391 ) said, “ From there ( Harran ) two different royal highways lead to Persia: the one on the left through Adiabene and over the Tigris ; the one on the right, through Assyria and across the Euphrates .” Not only did Harran have easy access to both the Assyrian and Babylonian roads, but also to north road to the Euphrates that provided easy access to Malatiyah and Asia Minor.

From its earliest days, the King David Hotel hosted royalty: the dowager empress of Persia, queen mother Nazli of Egypt and King Abdullah I of Jordan stayed at the hotel, and three heads of state forced to flee their countries took up residence there: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, forced to abdicate in 1931, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, driven out by the Italians in 1936, and King George II of Greece who set up his government in exile at the hotel after the Nazi occupation of his country in 1942.

From China, musk, rhubarb, & silk in exchange of gromwells, pearls, horses from Arabia & Persia, non worked silk, silk embroidery threads, fruits of the date palm, raisins, salt, sulphur & many other goods.

From at least the time of Peter the Great there had been talk of pushing southeast toward Persia and India.

From India, the art of palmistry spread to China, Tibet, Egypt, Persia and to other countries in Europe From China, palmistry progressed to Greece where Anaxagoras practiced it.

From the 12th century the industry in Persia and Mesopotamia appears to decline, and the main production of luxury glass shifts to Egypt and Syria, and decorative effects of colour on smooth surfaced glass.

From 1860 to 1863 he was in Persia as secretary to the British Legation, publishing on his return The Journal of a Diplomate.

From 1938 and during the war he served as an NCO in mobile radio detachment ( 3 Corps ) of Royal Signals Corps in the 8th Army in Persia in 1942.

From E. Sykes's " Persia and Its People ": " Early in the seventeenth century, Shah Abbas imported Chinese workmen into his country to teach his subjects the art of making porcelain, and the Chinese influence is very strong in the designs on this ware.

From these statements it appears that Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, was the monarch under whom the captivity of the Jews ended, for in the first year of his reign he was prompted by God to make a decree that the Temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt and that such Jews as cared to might return to their land for this purpose.

From Russia, he proceeded through Tartary into Persia, and resided for some time at Tabriz, Teheran, Persepolis, and Shiraz.

From this position he attacked the coastal cities of Iran ( Persia )-which at that time was in civil war, due to a dispute as to the succession-even raiding the birthplace of the Sassanid kings, the province of Pars ( Fars ).

From 610 to 628 the last and most devastating wars between Byzantium and Persia took place.

From Persia he was sent again to Turkey, and, having captured in rapid succession the principal fortresses, he was at the end of the campaign made a Field Marshal at the age of forty-seven.

The Nestorians, who were persecuted in the Byzantine Empire, sought refuge in Mesopotamia, then part of the Sassanid Empire, From there they spread Christianity to Persia, India, China, and Mongolia.

From there he went to Persia, then cut back across the Arabian Peninsula to Egypt and North Africa, returning to the Iberian Peninsula in 1173.

From these two poems, and from the 2nd homily on Fasting ( Bickell 14 = Bedjan 17 ) we gain a vivid picture of the miseries borne by the inhabitants of that frontier region during the wars between Persia and the Romano-Greek empire.

From being one of the most wealthy and influential families of Persia to penury in one night left a mark on Ásíyih for the rest of her life.

From 840 to 916 the Kimak Kaganate dominated the heartland of Asia, controlled a key central portion of the Silk Road, and influenced events from China to Persia and Europe, on a par with the Scythians and Mongols.

From there he travelled to Mesopotamia, visiting Nineveh, Sura, Pumbedita, and Baghdad before moving on to Persia.

From Persia he went on to Russia for four months covering the Battle of Kursk and Stalin's counter-attack.

From many sides come remarks that Protestant churches are badly attended and the large medieval cathedrals look all but empty during services.

From biblical to medieval Christian traditions, tensions between self-affirmation and other-regard were sometimes discussed under the heading of " disinterested love ," as in the Pauline phrase " love seeks not its own interests.

From Middle English ligeaunce ( see medieval Latin ligeantia, " a liegance ").

From the fort, the Bonnburg, as well as from a new medieval settlement to the South centred around what later became the minster, grew the medieval city of Bonn.

From then on Galen and the Greek medical tradition in general became assimilated into the medieval and early modern Islamic Middle East.

From the need for horseshoes, the craft of blacksmithing became " one of the great staple crafts of medieval and modern times and contributed to the development of metallurgy .” A treatise titled " No Foot, No Horse " was published in Great Britain in 1751.

From the commencement of the early medieval period until 1387 all of these isles were part of the Diocese of Sodor and Man, based at Peel, on the Isle of Man.

From ancient texts to medieval maps, anything written down for study would have been done with manuscripts.

A popular medieval saying that also served as his epitaph states, From Mosheh ( of the Torah ) to Mosheh ( Maimonides ) there was none like Mosheh.

From these first motets arose a medieval tradition of secular motets.

From the medieval period, the process of direct reduction in bloomeries began to be replaced by an indirect process.

From the Land of Israel, the tradition of targum to Ketuvim made its way to Italy, and from there to medieval Ashkenaz and Sepharad.

From 1574 to 1585 King Frederick II had the medieval fortress radically transformed into a magnificent Renaissance castle.

Kronborg Castle and the Øresund from the 1580s geography book Civitates Orbis Terrarum. From 1574 to 1585 Frederick II had the medieval fortress rebuilt into a magnificent Renaissance castle, unique in its appearance and size throughout Europe.

From medieval times until the end of the 19th century, the region of Burkina Faso was ruled by the empire-building Mossi people, who are believed to have come up to their present location from northern Ghana, where the ethnically-related Dagomba people still live.

From the medieval ages, the people in Hokkaidō began to be called Ezo.

From there the streets of the medieval walled town slope downward to the River Teme, and northward toward the River Corve.

From the 17th to mid-19th centuries civil parishes were based on early Christian and medieval monastic and church settlements.

From medieval times to the mid 20th century, Ragwort was used against inflammations of the eye, for sore and cancerous ulcers, rheumatism, sciatica and gout, for painful joints.

From medieval times until the nineteenth century, the Gascon language was spoken, which is a regional variant of the Occitan Language.

From medieval times, English companies thrived in Calais.

From the early modern period onwards, this Western-style organizational form gradually spread from the medieval Latin west across the globe, eventually replacing all other higher-learning institutions and becoming the preeminent model for higher education everywhere.

From both his parents he was descended from Holstein-Gottorp, a house with a number of medieval Scandinavian royal dynasties among its ancestors.