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    Posted: 07-Nov-2004 at 17:12

Calling dogs Tazi is no different than calling cats Persian. You also have to remember that Tazi was the name Persians used to refer to real Arabs as in nomadic people that lived in part of what is Saudi Arabia now. Today term Arab is used to  refer to any middle eastern that speaks Arabic whose ethnical identity or language somehow has been forgotten through the history. I don't think there is any offense intended by calling dogs Arab

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I feel a bit offended when calling arabs dogs... i'm arab myself..
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  Quote Miller Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Oct-2004 at 23:31
Originally posted by warhead

"Has Iran ever been able to defend itself against invaders, attackers, occupiers and conquerers? It seems like just about anyone who ever attacked Persia/Iran managed to either occupy or totally conquer the country. Sad.

Greeks/Macedonians, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, Turks again, Afghans...more recently the Brits in the early 20th century...They all attacked and they all managed to occupy Iran for a good deal of time."

 

You can say this with practically any area on earth.

 

There are not that many countries that have been around for a couple of millenniums, are located right in the middle of the old world, and have been relatively rich through out most of their history. Add all of these up and you can imagine that there would be nomads or less affluent countries around them that would try to invade and take some of the riches. A few like Alexander, Genghiz Khan, and Mohammed succeeded and many you never hear about were defeated. Alexander came very close to getting killed in the first battle he fought against the Persians in Asia Minor. Had he died in that battle today you won't be reading stories about how he was defeated. That was expected and would have been too boring to mention. He would have been another one of these small rebels without a name who tries and failed and nobody knew about.

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  Quote warhead Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Oct-2004 at 22:52

"Has Iran ever been able to defend itself against invaders, attackers, occupiers and conquerers? It seems like just about anyone who ever attacked Persia/Iran managed to either occupy or totally conquer the country. Sad.

Greeks/Macedonians, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, Turks again, Afghans...more recently the Brits in the early 20th century...They all attacked and they all managed to occupy Iran for a good deal of time."

 

You can say this with practically any area on earth.

 

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  Quote Miller Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Oct-2004 at 20:35
Originally posted by Aryan

Yes very.

My question is: Why was Persia never able to really defend itself against invaders and conquerers? Every single time someone attacked the whole empire collapsed like a house of cards.
Maybe if there was not so much internal chaos and corruption and if the kings actually took time to unite the nation instead of killing uncles, sons, fathers etc.., they would actually have been able to defend the empire.

 

There are not that many countries that have been around for a couple of millenniums, are located right in the middle of the old world, and have been relatively rich through out most of their history. Add all of these up and you can imagine that there would be nomads or less affluent countries around them that would try to invade and take some of the riches. A few like Alexander, Genghiz Khan, and Mohammed succeeded and many you never hear about were defeated. Alexander came very close to getting killed in the first battle he fought against the Persians in Asia Minor. Had he died in that battle today you won't be reading stories about how he was defeated. That was expected and would have been too boring to mention. He would have been another one of these small rebels without a name who tries and failed and nobody knew about.

 

 



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  Quote maersk Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01-Oct-2004 at 12:08
what if yasdegirid had been able to get help?..........
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  Quote Berosus Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01-Oct-2004 at 05:18
Hmm, the Parthians did better when they were defending Iran than when they tried to conquer Roman territory; the Romans never got farther than the Tigris valley.  And Shah Abbas did an awfully good job around 1600; he could defeat the Turks, even if the rulers before and after him couldn't.
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  Quote Aryan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19-Sep-2004 at 09:37

Yes very.

My question is: Why was Persia never able to really defend itself against invaders and conquerers? Every single time someone attacked the whole empire collapsed like a house of cards.
Maybe if there was not so much internal chaos and corruption and if the kings actually took time to unite the nation instead of killing uncles, sons, fathers etc.., they would actually have been able to defend the empire.

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  Quote Evildoer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19-Sep-2004 at 07:05

I don't think Turks ever occupied Persia. Neither did Afghans.

Mongols conquered just about everything.

Well, Germany was occupied by Huns at one time, and Romans conquered a whole South-Western part of it as well. Napoleon also occupied it temporarily. During WWI, a strip of West Germany was under the rule of French and Belgians, and a Eastern portion under that of Poles. After WWII, Americans, British and French occupied West Germany and the Soviets took over East Germany.

Impressive military history eh?

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  Quote Aryan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Sep-2004 at 23:39

Has Iran ever been able to defend itself against invaders, attackers, occupiers and conquerers? It seems like just about anyone who ever attacked Persia/Iran managed to either occupy or totally conquer the country. Sad.

Greeks/Macedonians, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, Turks again, Afghans...more recently the Brits in the early 20th century...They all attacked and they all managed to occupy Iran for a good deal of time.

 



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  Quote warhead Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Sep-2004 at 14:28

"TheChinese were definately defeated at some point during the era in question in Central Asia by the Arabs."

 

In 751 at the battle of talas, not during the time of Li Shi Min when Yazgerd asked for help. It was just a minor skirmish, arabs has also been defeated by Tang forces in smaller skimishes in Ferghana and Xing Jiang.

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  Quote Zagros Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01-Sep-2004 at 17:57
TheChinese were definately defeated at some point during the era in question in Central Asia by the Arabs.
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  Quote Zagros Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01-Sep-2004 at 17:56
No it does not.  Tazistan was what the Arabian Peninsula was called, 'Sage Tazi' means hunting dog.
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  Quote Dari Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31-Aug-2004 at 00:52
Tazi was used as a reference to the Arabs, it means, "Arab Hound Dogs".


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  Quote Mast Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-Aug-2004 at 09:43
Ask for help against who?


Tazi = Arabs
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-Aug-2004 at 19:36

Originally posted by KingCyrus

Why didn't Yazdegird III ask China for help, against the Tazi?

He did, in 638.

Originally posted by Zagros Purya

 His son became a chinese general I believe.

Yes, his son Peroz became a chinese general.



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  Quote Imperatore Dario I Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-Aug-2004 at 18:37
Ask for help against who?

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  Quote warhead Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-Aug-2004 at 17:24
no, Tang didn't fight at all. Tai Zong denied the request because iran is too far away and he had no interest in that territory in dispatchinga troop that far with no purpose.
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