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The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 08

Note 9 — PARTHIANS, SASSANIDS, AND ARABS

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These forms have to a certain extent survived to our own day, as the name of an Iranian people in Transirania and elsewhere, who accepted the Arab religion earlier than their neighbours and were consequently called “Arabs.” In the same way later Syrians often call all Moslems “Taits.”

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