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Title: A Never-Ending Story
Subtitle: The Process of Militarisation in the Van, Sevan and Orumiyeh Basins from the Achaemenid to the Sasanian Period
Author(s): DAN, Roberto , CESARETTI, Andrea
Journal: Ancient West & East
Volume: 22    Date: 2023   
Pages: 109-131
DOI: 10.2143/AWE.22.0.3292243

Abstract :
This contribution is the last of three analysing processes concerning militarisation of the territories located around the Van, Sevan and Orumiyeh basins. The first paper was of a more methodological perspective, while the second examined the long protohistoric period up to the advent in the region of the state of Urartu. The present work aims to investigate the development of militarisation processes that occurred when these territories gradually became part of supra-regional dynamics as part of great empires such as the Achaemenid and Sasanian. The study identifies that the dynamics related to militarisation changed modality but remained substantially present in these regions, which in this period underwent the construction of large fortification systems over wide portions of territory.

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