Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Series Editor's Preface
- 1 Introduction
- PART I SURPLUS PRODUCTION, URBAN GROWTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- PART II FRONTIERS AND FRONTIER LANDSCAPES
- 5 The Northern and Western Borderlands of the Sasanian Empire: Contextualising the Roman/Byzantine and Sasanian Frontier
- 6 Connectivity on a Sasanian Frontier: Route Systems in the Gorgan Plain of North-East Iran
- 7 The Sasanian Empire and the East: A Summary of the Evidence and its Implications for Rome
- PART III CONTESTED TERRITORIES AND CULTURAL CONTACTS BETWEEN PERSIA AND ROME
- PART IV IMPERIAL POWER BALANCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Index
7 - The Sasanian Empire and the East: A Summary of the Evidence and its Implications for Rome
from PART II - FRONTIERS AND FRONTIER LANDSCAPES
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Series Editor's Preface
- 1 Introduction
- PART I SURPLUS PRODUCTION, URBAN GROWTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- PART II FRONTIERS AND FRONTIER LANDSCAPES
- 5 The Northern and Western Borderlands of the Sasanian Empire: Contextualising the Roman/Byzantine and Sasanian Frontier
- 6 Connectivity on a Sasanian Frontier: Route Systems in the Gorgan Plain of North-East Iran
- 7 The Sasanian Empire and the East: A Summary of the Evidence and its Implications for Rome
- PART III CONTESTED TERRITORIES AND CULTURAL CONTACTS BETWEEN PERSIA AND ROME
- PART IV IMPERIAL POWER BALANCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Index
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- Sasanian PersiaBetween Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia, pp. 151 - 178Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2017