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Persepolis

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Persepolis

Ancient royal city of the Persian Empire, 65 km/40 mi northeast of Shiraz. It was burned down after its capture in 331 BC by Alexander the Great.



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*Friezes from Tadmor and Persepolis - From Balbec, and the stilly, clear abyss
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
The spectator is apt to imagine that nature had formerly suffered some violent convulsion; and that these are the dismembered remains of the dreadful shock; the ruins, not of Persepolis or Palmyra, but of the world!
Adventures Of Col. Daniel Boone by Filson, John View in context
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