Published: 22023-12-31 — Updated on 2024-01-04

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The Middle East on the road to war. Political and cultural determinants of changes in the vectors of Iranian foreign policy in the years 484-502

Tomasz Sińczak
Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings
Section: Rozprawy i Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2023.30.2.1

Abstract

Relations between the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran in the 5th century were largely the result of settling disputes and cooperation in the face of the threat that resulted from the aggressive moves of the nomad community. A great influence on the internal policy, and later also external, of Sasanian Iran was exerted by nomads from Central Asia and especially the Hephthalites described in this text, whose influence on the Sassanids finally led to the reorientation of their foreign policy to the west, which resulted in the outbreak of a new great war in the Middle East.

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the Sassanids, Rome, Sasanian Iran, Hephthalites, nomads, Central Asia, Anonim, Epitome, w: Historie Kościoła Jana Diakrinomenosa i Teodora Lektora, ed. R. Kosiński, A. Szopa, K. Twardowska, Kraków 2019, s. 183-319.

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Sińczak, T. (2024). The Middle East on the road to war. Political and cultural determinants of changes in the vectors of Iranian foreign policy in the years 484-502. Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings, 2(30), 5–17. https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2023.30.2.1 (Original work published December 31, 2023)

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