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"Parthian is an extinct Middle Iranian language. It was the language of Parthia (Old Persian Partava) the historical region corresponding roughly to todays Khorasan and Golestan provinces as well as parts of modern Turkmenistan"  
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"Justinus says about the Parthian tongue: sermo his inter Scythicum Medicumque medius et utrimque mixtus (4123) meaning that it was a linguistic mixture of Scythian (i.e. Saka) and Median"  
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"in the sources of the ancient Persian Achaemenid Empire the name sak or Saka often simply denoted any inhabitant of the steppes"  
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"For example the ancient subregion Sakasene in the kingdom of Albania in the Caucasus (present-day Azerbaijan) and the nearby city of Sheki derive their names from Old Persian sak although Scythian nomads from the Black Sea region migrated there in antiquity"  
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"In general however it is customary to distinguish between the clearly identifiable groups: Scythians in the narrow sense (South RussianUkrainian steppes ca. 8th3rd century BCE)"  
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"Sarmatians (initially further east 3rd century BCE3rd century CE in formerly Scythian territory) Massagetae (6th3rd century BCE around the Aral Sea) and Saka in the narrow sense in eastern Kazakhstan Uzbekistan and western Xinjiang"  
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"The Amaras Monastery in Nagorno Karabakh where in the 5th century Saint Mesrob Mashtots the inventor of the Armenian Alphabet established the first-ever Armenian school that used his script"  
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"The city itself is connected to the Tigris by the Wadi al-Trtr. This connection of Hatra to the deep water (al-bahr) enabled fishing and shipping. The city was also connected to the Roman road network"  
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"Hatra's heyday was in the 2nd century when the Romans were in Mesopotamia but could not overcome Hatra's walls. The city was surrounded by an almost circular wall. In the center of the circle was the temple of the sun God"  
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