 The natural clefts of the Empire, the fissures which were so apt at any weakening of the central authority to gape, followed geographical barriers. From Northern Syria the western provinces were cut off by the line of the Taurus; on the east the desert...  The House of Seleucus - Сторінка 76автори: Edwyn Robert Bevan - 1902Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
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...which was the dynasty's heartland, with Cilicia and Mesopotamia; and in the east Babylonia and Iran. "The natural clefts of the Empire, the fissures which...authority to gape, followed geographical barriers. . . . The long struggle for each one has a more or less separate history."16 The student of Zoroastrianism... | |
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