Relations between the Center and the Periphery in Safavid Iran: The Western Borderlands v. the Eastern Frontier Zone

2015/09/01 by Rudi Matthee · 4 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Byzantine Studies and History #Eurasian Exchange Networks #Islamic Studies and History

paper · doi:10.1111/hisn.12068

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Abstract

Iran is commonly seen as having generated history's first world empire—an ideologically underpinned superstate ruling over a culturally diverse population. The Achaemenid Empire (c. 550‐330 BCE) “i...

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