Parthians

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1239 The Parthians faced no opposition and proceeded to the town of Gindarus in Cyrrhestica where Ventidius's army was waiting. Source: Internet

About his Eastern Lands, he wrote "think of Saracens, Arabs, Parthians, Assyrians even. Source: Internet

Alan Cameron, review of Anthony Birley's Marcus Aurelius, The Classical Review 17:3 (1967): 349. ) More bad news arrived: the Syrian governor's army had been defeated by the Parthians, and retreated in disarray. Source: Internet

Armstrong, p. 126 The Romans hoped to use Herod as a bulwark against the Parthians in the coming campaign. Source: Internet

Because they needed to control the Persian Gulf trade route, the Parthians established garrisons along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf. Source: Internet

Bivar (1983), p. 55. A story later emerged to the effect that after Crassus' death, the Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth as a symbol of his thirst for wealth. Source: Internet