English Explanatory Dictionary

Parthian Empire

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An ancient empire of West Asia founded as a kingdom by Arsaces I with his 3rd-century-BCE conquest of Parthia (only recently a satrapy of the Seleucid Empire) and subsequently greatly expanded by Mithridates I.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

Parthian Empire

Synonyms

Arsacid Empire

Related words

Arsacid dynasty
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