Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
The first edition cover.
Author
Tom Holland
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Subject
Achaemenid Persian Empire
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date
2005
Published in English
2005
Media type
Paperback
ISBN
9780349117171
Preceded by
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Followed by
Millennium
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West is a historical study of the Persian Empire by popular historian Tom Holland, first published in 2005. It won the Runciman Award.
PersianFire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West is a historical study of the Persian Empire by popular historian Tom Holland, first published...
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purpose of the long pistol the Persian has given him, as he is only instructed to keep his hand as if he were ready to fire - and that it does not even matter...
The Persians (Ancient Greek: Πέρσαι, Persai, Latinised as Persae) is an ancient Greek tragedy written during the Classical period of Ancient Greece by...
Hindu, Sikh, and Zoroastrian place of worship. "Ātash" (آتش) is the Persian word for fire. The pentagonal complex, which has a courtyard surrounded by cells...
The first Persian invasion of Greece, during the Greco-Persian Wars, began in 492 BC, and ended with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon...
mythology, or Persian mythology in western term (Persian: اسطورهشناسی ایرانی), is the body of the myths originally told by ancient Persians and other Iranian...
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his army ever eastward. The novel is a sequel to Renault's Fire from Heaven (1969). The Persian Boy was a bestseller within the gay community. Like much...
Tappe Mil (Persian: تپه میل or the Fire Temple of Rey Persian: آتشکده ری, Fire Temple of Bahram Persian: آتشکده بهرام) is one of the historical religious...
The war is also known under other names, such as The Second Gulf War, Persian Gulf War, Kuwait War, First Iraq War, or Iraq War before the term "Iraq...
Persian Jews or Iranian Jews (Persian: یهودیان ایرانی Yahudiyān-e Irāni; Hebrew: יהודים פרסים Yəhūdīm Parsīm) constitute one of the oldest communities...
The Battle of Plataea was the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place in 479 BC near the city of Plataea in Boeotia...
The Cinema Rex fire (Persian: آتشسوزی سینما رکس آبادان, lit. 'Rex Abadan cinema fire') happened on 19 August 1978 when the Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran...
Zoroastrianism, ātar (Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭲𐭥𐭥𐭩 ādar or ādur) is iconographically conflated with fire itself, which in Middle Persian is 𐭠𐭲𐭧𐭱 ātaxsh, one...
the Persian Zoroastrian clerics of Pars. To some extent Kartir was an iconoclast and took it upon himself to help establish numerous Bahram fires throughout...
The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece...
Athens was carried out by the Achaemenid Army of Xerxes I during the Second Persian invasion of Greece, and occurred in two phases over a period of two years...
article contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Middle Persian or Pahlavi, also...
Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the First Persian Empire (/əˈkiːmənɪd/; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' or 'The Kingdom'), was...
The Fire Temple of Yazd (آتشکده یزد, Ātaškade-ye Yazd), also known as Yazd Atash Behram (Persian: آتش بهرام یزد, Ātaš Bahrām-e Yazd), is a Zoroastrian...
Salman al-Farsi (Arabic: سَلْمَان ٱلْفَارِسِيّ) was a Persian religious scholar and one of the companions of Muhammad. As a practicing Zoroastrian, he...
ISBN 9781541618299. "Darius I, DNa inscription, Line 28". Holland, Tom (2005). PersianFire. Abacus. pp. 47–55. ISBN 978-0-349-11717-1. Holland, p.203 Herodotus...
1974, p. 186 Holland, Tom (2005). PersianFire. Abacus. pp. 178–9. ISBN 9780349117171. Holland, Tom (2005). PersianFire. Abacus. p. 192. ISBN 9780349117171...
all 2.6 million. See a modern interpretation of Herodotus's estimate, PersianFire. The First Great Empire and the Battle of the West. New York. Doubleday...