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Maurice defeated the Persians at Dara in 586 and recaptured the fortress, but the Persians under Khosrau II defeated the Byzantines in 604. This time, the Persians destroyed the city, but the Byzantines later rebuilt it in 628. In 639 the Muslim Arabs captured it, and it remained in their hands until 942 when it was sacked by the Byzantines.
350,000 rupiah. Darah dan Doa ([daˈrah ˈdan doˈa]; Indonesian for Blood and Prayer, released internationally as The Long March) is a 1950 Indonesian war film directed and produced by Usmar Ismail, telling the story of the Siliwangi Division and its leader Captain Sudarto on a march to West Java. Following Ismail's Dutch-produced Tjitra (1949 ...
Dara Shikoh, also transliterated as Dara Shukoh, (20 March 1615 – 30 August 1659) [2] [4] was the eldest son and heir-apparent of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. [5] Dara was designated with the title Padshahzada-i-Buzurg Martaba (lit. ' Prince of High Rank ') [6] and was favoured as a successor by his father and his elder sister, Princess ...
Folio from a copy of the Shahnameh, made in Safavid Iran during the early 16th-century. Dara I or Darab I was the penultimate king of the mythological Kayanian dynasty, ruling for 12 years. He was the son of Kay Bahman. Most accounts agree that Dara's mother was Humay Chehrzad, who had married her father, Kay Bahman.
John of Dara. John (fl. c. 825–860), in Syriac Iwannis, was a Syriac Orthodox writer and the metropolitan bishop of Dara (Anastasiopolis). He wrote extensively on theology, philosophy and liturgy in the Syriac language.
e. Kali (/ ˈkɑːliː /; Sanskrit: काली, IAST: Kālī), also called Kalika, is a major goddess in Hinduism, associated with time, death, violence, sexuality, female empowerment, and motherly love. [ 1 ] Kali is the first of the ten Mahavidyas in the Hindu tantric tradition.
The star symbol "𒀭", the "Dingir", is a silent honorific for "Divine". Shar-Kali-Sharri (𒀭𒊬𒂵𒉌 𒈗𒌷, D Shar-ka-li-Sharri; [3]) reigned c. 2217–2193 BC (middle chronology) as the ruler of the Akkadian Empire. In the early days of cuneiform scholarship the name was transcribed as "Shar-Gani-sharri". [4] In the 1870s ...
The Ain Dara temple is a destroyed Iron Age Syro-Hittite temple noted for its similarities to Solomon's Temple, also known as the "First Temple in Jerusalem ", as described in the Hebrew Bible. [1][2][3] It is located near the village of Ain Dara, in Afrin District, Syria. According to the excavator, Ali Abu Assaf, it existed from 1300 BC until ...