parthian empire
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
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.
Example Sentences
- "The Parthian Empire became involved in an extended period of conflict with the Roman Republic and Empire that lasted for three centuries, until the latter eventually prevailed."
- "He not only seized former Seleucid Iran, but added Mesopotamia to the Parthian Empire."
- "Mithridates, who was one of Arsaces' successors, conquered Persia, Mesopotamia and Armenia, thereby founding the Parthian Empire."
- "The plague contributed to the subsequent weakness of the Roman Empire and killed at least one emperor: Claudius Gothicus, who died in 270. The effect on the Parthian Empire is unrecorded but presumably was equally debilitating."
Phrases
Arsacid dynasty
Frequently Paired Words
Arsacid dynasty