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    Sasanian architecture refers to the Persian architectural style that reached a peak in its development during the Sasanian era. In many ways the Sasanian...
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    support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The Sasanian Empire (/səˈsɑːniən, səˈseɪniən/), officially Eranshahr (Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩...
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    the Sasanians may have raised Sasan's rank to that of a god's. List of monarchs of the Sasanian Empire Sasanian family tree Sasanian architecture Zhou...
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    Caliphate (661–750) combined elements of Byzantine architecture and Sasanian architecture, but Umayyad architecture introduced new combinations of these styles...
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  • "Sasanian culture" is the culture of the Sasanian Empire and may refer to: Sasanian architecture Sasanian music This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    common, features of Iranian architecture. A circular city plan was a characteristic of several major Parthian and Sasanian cities, such as Hatra and Gor...
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    Iwan (category Sasanian architecture)
    at Dura Europos, and Uruk. The Sasanian Empire also favored the iwan form, and adopted it into much of their architecture; however, they transformed the...
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    Round city of Baghdad (category Sasanian architecture)
    city was a direct reflection of the traditional Persian Sasanian urban design. The ancient Sasanian city of Gur/Firouzabad is nearly identical in its general...
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    Sasanian art, or Sassanid art, was produced under the Sasanian Empire which ruled from the 3rd to 7th centuries AD, before the Muslim conquest of Persia...
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    feature, it was first used in eastern Christian architecture, Byzantine architecture and Sasanian architecture, but in the 12th century it came into use in...
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    Medieval architecture Neo-Byzantine architecture Ottoman architecture Russian-Byzantine architecture Sasanian architecture Armenian architecture Dimitriu...
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    Taq Kasra (category Sasanian architecture)
    romanized: Eivâne Xosrow, meaning Iwan of Khosrow) are the remains of a Sasanian-era Persian monument, dated to c. the 3rd to 6th centuries, which is sometimes...
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    Sasanian Armenia, also known as Persian Armenia and Persarmenia (Armenian: Պարսկահայաստան – Parskahayastan), may either refer to the periods in which Armenia...
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  • 1,500 years, with the first instance apparently being developed in the Sasanian city of Gor (Firuzabad) in 210s AD by King Ardashir I. The biggest instance...
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    Taq-e Bostan (category Sasanian architecture)
    Kermanshah, Iran, carved around the 4th century CE during the Sasanian era. This example of Sasanian art is located 5 km from the city center of Kermanshah....
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  • Temple of Anahita, Bishapur (category Sasanian architecture)
    The Temple of Anahita or the Shrine of Anahita (Middle Persian: Ādur-Anāhīd) is one of the famous monuments of the ancient city of Bishapur, located in...
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    the world. Dome structures were common in both Byzantine architecture and Sasanian architecture, which influenced that of the rest of Europe and Islam in...
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    Ka'ba-ye Zartosht (category Sasanian inscriptions)
    incorporates memorials of the Elamites, the Achaemenids and the Sasanians. Architecturally, it is one of several Kaabas. The Ka'ba-ye Zartosht is 46 metres...
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    Palace of Ardashir (category Sasanian architecture)
    as thick as Ghal'eh Dokhtar), and is a contained structure. From the architectural design, it seems the palace was more of a place of social gathering...
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    Bates, M. (1986). "ARAB-SASANIAN COINS". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. II/3: ʿArab Moḥammad–Architecture IV. London and New York:...
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    example of Byzantine architecture, and the first outbreak of the centuries-long first plague pandemic took place. At Ctesiphon, the Sasanians completed the Taq...
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  • Temple of Anahita, Istakhr (category Sasanian architecture)
    of high importance to the Sasanians. Ardashir I (r. 224–242), who overthrew the Parthian Empire and established the Sasanian control over the country,...
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    Tetrapylon (category Ancient Roman architectural elements)
    similar structures were built in Sasanian architecture and perhaps earlier as well as later periods in the architecture of Iran, some apparently as parts...
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    Tappe Mil (category Sasanian architecture)
    the historical religious places in Rey, Iran which has stood since the Sasanian Empire. It is named after Bahram V. About 12 kilometers southeast of Ray...
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    attributes of Gothic, appears in Late Roman Byzantine architecture and the Sasanian architecture of Iran during late antiquity, although the form had been...
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    Mesopotamia located south of what is now Kufa in south-central Iraq. The Sasanian government established the Lakhmid state (Al-Hirah) on the edge of the...
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    Umayyads adopted the construction techniques of Byzantine architecture and Sasanian architecture. The reuse of elements from classical Roman and Byzantine...
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    Horseshoe arch (category Islamic architectural elements)
    for the earliest uses of this form are found in Late Antique and Sasanian architecture, and it was then used in Spain by the Visigoths. But in the 19th...
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    Adur Burzen-Mihr (category Sasanian architecture)
    Zoroastrian fire temple of the highest grade) located in Parthia. In the Sasanian period, it was one of the three Great Fires and was associated with the...
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  • style is a style (sabk) of historical Iranian architecture defined by Mohammad Karim Pirnia. This architectural style includes designs from the Seleucid (310–140...
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