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US
/pɝˈsɛpəɫəs/
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NOUN
- an ancient city that was the capital of the ancient Persian Empire; now in ruins
How To Use Persepolis In A Sentence
- Persepolis overcomes this problem through two simple techniques.
- Persepolis offers more than just a historical recount of past events; it adds a human face to those times.
- The man responsible for destroying Persepolis had been none other than Alexander: the feat that broadcast his triumph more blazingly than all his many others, since the city had served, for almost two centuries, as the capital of Asia. The Greatest of Them All
- For archeologists like Matt Stolper, Professor of Assyriology at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, each tablet is a priceless treasure -- a small window into Persepolis, the capitol of ancient Persia. Trita Parsi: Obama and the Persian Treasures in Chicago
- The ancient Persian use of columns was almost entirely abandoned, but doors and windows were still treated with the banded frames and cavetto-cornices of Persepolis and Susa. A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
- Cast steles from Persepolis depict subject nations bringing gifts from satrapies as far apart as Lydia (western Turkey) and India to honour the ‘king of kings’.
- As soon as most of the snow had melted between Persepolis and Ecbatana, Alexander readied his army for a lightning march up the eastern side of the Zagros Mountains. Alexander the Great
- In point of boring h istorical fact, the mention of Persepolis in his hero's vaunt is a serious anachronism. The Greatest of Them All
- Indeed, most of the exhibits are from the museum: only fifty out of around 500 have come from Persepolis and the Iranian national collections.
- The column bases and stairs of crenulated walls are very similar to those belonging to the ‘Hall of One Hundred Columns’ Sad-Sotun at Persepolis. Archive 2008-02-01