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Sentence count:23Posted:2017-10-05Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: apple-polishAcceptable Use Policyhorsepowerhorse powernoise pollutionpolispolisherpolishMeaning: n. an ancient city that was the capital of the ancient Persian Empire; now in ruins. 
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1, The party was held in the ruins of Persepolis, which was built by Darius and burned by Alexander the Great.
2, Actually, Persepolis is mostly the work of this king.
3, Persepolis and Ancient Iran. University of Chicago.
4, For nearly two centuries—roughly 518 B. C. to 333 B. C. —Persepolis served as the capital for an empire that stretched from Greece to India.
5, When he tossed a much-ballyhooed party in Persepolis three years ago to celebrate Persia's 2,500th anniversary, he invited virtually everybody who was anybody – but mostly nobodies showed up.
6, The L-shaped, off-white structure at Persepolis is a modern covering, providing some protection from the elements to part of the ancient complex.
7, Persepolis itself is roughly rectangular, and rivals the size of nearby modern settlements.
8, The other archive, the Persepolis Treasury Tablets is smaller (139 tablets) but similar to the first one; it describes payment in silver between 492 and 458.
9, It has flown free from the walls of Persepolis and now shines among new peoples on new continents.
10, In the tradition of Persepolis, In the Shadow of No Towers, and Our Cancer Year, an illustrated memoir of remarkable depth, power, and beauty.
11, The Faravahar of Persepolis is the one that has been adopted by Zoroastrians as their symbol.
12, But it is in the carvings of Persepolis, center of the Achaemenid dynasty(sentencedict.com), that the Faravahar reaches its most elaborate and finely wrought perfection.
13, A tree-lined road leads to the site of Persepolis from the southwest.
14, Persepolis has become a popular destination for foreign tourists and Iranian citizens alike.
15, The Zoroastrian faravahar was "standardized" to the Persepolis model, though, as we have seen, even in Persepolis there are many variants of the Faravahar.
16, The les fortunate guests had to come daily from the new hotel on Persepolis or even form Shiraz, forty miles away.
17, It was the largest and probably the most beautiful of the buildings at Persepolis.
18, The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this natural-color image of Persepolis and the surrounding region on January 5,(http://sentencedict.com/persepolis.html) 2004.
19, However this may be, it seems as if Darius 'invented' Persepolis as the splendid seat of the government of the Achaemenid empire and as its center for receptions and festivals.
20, Austria and Iran cooperate to restore ancient capital of Persepolis.
21, King Darius I the Great (522-486) built a new capital, Persepolis , forty-three kilometers downstream along the river Pulvar.
22, At the transition between flat land and rugged mountain, at the base of Kuh-i-Rahmat, or "Mountain of Mercy," lies Persepolis.
23, This image, from the University of Chicago, is an administrative record of the payout of at least 600 quarts of an as-yet unidentified commodity at five villages near Persepolis in about 500 B.C.
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