Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran
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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran
@sasanianshah.bsky.social
Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
Despite the fact that he wanted to capture Napoleon and put him in a cage and parade him around France, he still gets a statue…! :)
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
That this Fascist jerk has casually renamed himself and his department and we are all just casually watching it is one if the things that worries me a lot…
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Clovis I: how he is on his (much later effigy)
Medieval painting
How he probably really looked like…
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
With Pepin I…

I love Pepin’s title in French and the fact that it cognates with English brief.
November 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The first, very sloshy (Icelandic: slydda), of the year in a mildly festive Lille…
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This is the stuff you wouldn’t have believed if you were told it a few years ago!
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
mazdēsn bay Xudāydāt šāhanšāh ī Ērăn u Anērān ku čihr az yazdān, andar Lille šahristān, tasūg ī Haut Nord, Frangistān šahr…
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Three of my “East of the Orient” lectures in Lille will be broadcasted as part of our Ērān, Tūran, Hrōm series. You can register for them here: framaforms.org/the-orients-...
November 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
From 17 Nov., I will be an “invited international professor” (grand title for a guest lecturer) for a short course at University of Lille, sponsored by Faculté des Humanités & invited by @ekaterinanechaeva.bsky.social.

I am so excited about the experience ex-patria.univ-lille.fr/archives/4038
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
This is super funny. After four decades of dismissing pre-Islamic history & clinging to Islamic period symbolism, the IRI now is using things like this, a full size statue based on the famous Shapur I relief, to drum up support & get popular support. Ii doubt it will work as ppl are too jaded.
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Austrian kings are handy…
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Next month, I will be convening a short-course at University of Lille in France, titled the Orient’s East: Iran and Eurasia in the 1st Millennium. I’ll be delivering six talks on the Sasanians, Central Asia, the “Silk Roads”, & the Iranian relations with China.

ex-patria.univ-lille.fr/archives/4038
October 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Certain amount of historical harmony in that statement!

#RestoreBurgundy #OttoWilhelm #BourgogneLibre #FreigrafschaftBurgund
October 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Everyone talks about the increasing levels of corruption. But no one seems to bother with THIS level of corruption at all. T-rump is spending the US tax payer’s money to prop up an ally in another country?!

(FT, 21 Oct. 2025)
October 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Coin of Atiya b. As’ad, the Kharijite leader, minted in Kerman-Narmashir, year 73. The name of the authority, the mint mark, and the date are all written in Pahlavi Middle Persian (and 3 is written as a digit!). Atiya is identified as “Holder of authority” on the obverse margin.
October 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Post you from a different era
(If only to prove you were young once)
October 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Been laughing at this for an hour straight.
October 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I am sorry. This is offensive. Qataris, as well as Kuwaitis and Saudis and Afghans and Iraqis and others, and yet no one seems to put up similar “memes” with Americans in cowboy hats. What’s the point of this pic?
October 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Could someone read this Tamgha? I think it’s Abdulmejid I. But the date I can see (X33X) does’r work for his reign (1255-1277 Hijri). Anyone? Is it 1335 and somehow Mehmed V?
October 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Participating in this very interesting workshop, sadly remotely, and looking forward to some inspiring scholarship.

The Political Economy of Capital
in the Pre-Modern World
October 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
October 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Lying down here, sick and coughing, looking at the weather & thinking of all the other places I could reasonably be… why did I choose this?!
October 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“Hamas is responsible for the -> GENOCIDE<- being undertaken by ->the state of Israel <-“!!!!!!!

This is really a US Congressman. It’s not a joke or parody!
October 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Someone in Hamas writes better English than most American politicians. They mention the genocide & the occupation prisoners too…

Peace?
October 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Original art purchase from the Palestinian artist Rawan Anani: Nablus 2025

www.instagram.com/rawan_anani_...
October 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM