Katarzyna Maksymiuk

Biographic Data

ID5648453
NAMEKatarzyna Maksymiuk
GIVEN NAMESKatarzyna
FAMILY NAMEMaksymiuk
SIGNATUREMAKSYMIUK K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Siedlce
ORCID0000-0001-8709-0333
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Kavad and the Huns

    Open AccessEhsan KHONSARINEJAD, Amir Khanmoradi et al.ARTICLEHistoria i Świat2026

    Kavad’s reign (488-496, 498/9-531) was a turning point for the Sasanian Empire. Although many aspects of his rule have been discussed in detail by scholars, his attitude, strategies, and policies regarding the steppe nomads have been somewhat overlooked. In this paper, the authors have used the descriptive-critical-analytical approach to examine the scattered information regarding Kavad’s interactions with the Hephthalites and several steppe trib…

  • VENVS VICTRIX na monetach Julii Mamei – kilka uwag o kreowaniu pamięci historycznej przez ostatnich Sewerów

    Anita Smyk, Katarzyna MaksymiukARTICLEIn Gremium. Studies in History,…2025

    Celem badań jest próba rekonstrukcji autoprezentacji Julii Mamei i roli jaką w jej kreowaniu odegrały emisje monet zawierające przedstawienia VENVS VICTRIX. Przeanalizowano również znaczenie jakie w autoprezentacji Julii Mamei odegrała kampania perska Sewera Aleksandra. Utrzymanie się u władzy Sewera Aleksandra w dużym stopniu było uzależnione od poparcia armii, co znalazło swoje odbicie w mennictwie. Jednym z elementów autoprezentacji Julii Mame…

  • Waiting for the King” – Some Remarks on the Coronation of Shapur II

    Open AccessKatarzyna MaksymiukARTICLERes Historica2025

    Shapur II was the longest-reigning ruler of the Sasanian Empire. According to the legendary tradition, he became a king of Iran while still in his mother’s womb. The study analyzes information on Shapur II’s family connections contained in source accounts, especially those not related to official Iranian tradition. The romantic story of Shapur II’s coronation appears to have been taken from the Kayanid epics, describing the seizure of power by Da…

  • A few remarks on the military discipline of the Sasanian army in the context of the revolt of Bahram Chobin

    Open AccessKatarzyna MaksymiukARTICLEStudia Historica Gedanensia2025

    Head of the Sasanian army was the Šāhānšāh, but limited by the internal structure of the state and mainly due to the vast territory of the Iranian empire, the king had to use contingents of the aristocratic Parthian houses. The below discussion explores one of the aspects of maintaining discipline in the Sasanian army, which was the distribution of war spoils among soldiers. The analysis is based on source accounts of the revolt of Bahram Chobin

  • Delving into the composition of the Persian delegation during the 298 Roman-Persian negotiations

    Open AccessKatarzyna MaksymiukARTICLECogent Arts and Humanities2025

    The Peace of 298, also known as the First Peace of Nisibis, was a peace treaty signed by the Roman and Sasanian empires. The terms of the treaty are known from a 6th-century CE summary of its content by Byzantine historian Peter the Patrician. The present paper is focused on two fragments (F 201 and F 202), describing the diplomatic negotiations in Narseh’s palace. The author’s goal is to identify the Persian envoys, who accompanied the king of Ē…

  • A reverse of a unique coin of Shapur I in the context of the Sasanian-Roman peace treaty of 244

    Open AccessKatarzyna Maksymiuk, Patryk SkupniewiczARTICLEHistoria i Świat2025

    The Sasanian king Shapur I held a series of victorious campaigns against the Roman Empire. They were described in an inscription at Ka’be-ye Zardosht in Naqsh-e Rostam, and their visual display are the victory reliefs made on his order in Western Iran. The interludium of the wars was the peace treaty of 244 concluded by the Shahanshah Shapur I and the emperor Philip the Arab. The article aims in re-analysing of the reverse of a unique gold double…

  • The Cambridge History of Strategy

    Open AccessPeter Lorge, John O Hyland et al.BOOKCambridge History of Strategy2024

    Volume I of The Cambridge History of Strategy offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, to the late eighteenth century, from all parts of the world. Drawing on material evidence covering two-and-a-half millennia, an international team of leading scholars in each subject examines how strategy was formulated and applied and with what tools, from ancient Greece and China to the Ottoman and Mughal Empires an…

  • The Sassanian Empire’s Strategies

    Open AccessKatarzyna MaksymiukCHAPTERCambridge History of Strategy2024

    For over 400 years, Sassanid Persia was the greatest state in Asia. To the east, the Kushan Empire was already in decline. The only strong opponent of Iran was the Roman Empire in the west. Military competition for influence in northern Mesopotamia, Armenia and the Caucasus region dominated Iranian–Roman relations, orienting the strategic activities of the early Sassanids to the western fringes of the empire. The breakthrough came in the mid-four…

  • Early Sasanian Expansion and Military Institutions

    Katarzyna MaksymiukCHAPTERBrill’s Companion to War in the…2024

  • The Role of Itinerant Peddlers in Exchanges between Sedentary and Nomadic People in the Ancient Near East on Ethnographic Studies among Qashqai Tribe of Fars, Iran

    Open AccessMohammad Hossein Rezaei, Fahimeh KALANTARI et al.ARTICLEHistoria i Świat2024

    Complex nomadic communities have been nurtured for centuries in the Near East with extensive economic and social interactions with sedentary people in agricultural villages as well as with urban centers. The role of the exchange and trade can still be observed today in the dealings of seminomads with itinerant peddlers. Itinerant peddlers (or Pilevar), also known as Tawaf, visited black tents for exchange of goods. In the present study, by adopti…

  • The Battle of Satala

    Open AccessKatarzyna Maksymiuk, Patryk SkupniewiczARTICLEMediterranean Historical Review2024References: 15

  • Early Iranian Riders and Cavarly

    Open AccessKaveh Farrokh, Katarzyna Maksymiuk et al.ARTICLEHistoria i Świat2023

    The expansion of the Iranian peoples in first centuries of the 1st millennium BCE coincides with the creation and further development of the cavalry warfare in western Eurasia, as well as with the creation of the pastoral nomadic life-style which dominated the Great Steppe for millennia to come. The mounted warriors replaced the light chariots which dominated the Bronze Age battlefields which required perfect horsemanship however application of t…

  • Reforms of Sasanian king Khusro I and the northern bank of the Araxes – Arrān (Caucasus Albania)

    Open AccessMahir Khalifa-Zadeh, Katarzyna MaksymiukARTICLEHistoria i Świat2023

    The article considers the Sasanian king Khusro I Anushirwan’s reforms to improve the empire’s military and administrative architecture in the northwestern region of Ērānšahr, by creating the kust ī Ādurbādagān. The authors believes that it was a key element in the Sasanian strategy to enforce both central and military power in the defense sensitive Caucasia. The authors argues that the reform initiated the projecting of Ādurbādagān’s name, milita…

  • An Overview of Military Confrontations between of the Assyrian Army against the Medes in the 7th centuries BCE

    Open AccessKaveh Farrokh, Katarzyna Maksymiuk et al.ARTICLEHistoria i Świat2022

    The article discusses the military confrontation between Neo-Assyrian kingdom and the Median polities in the 7th century BCE. At the beginning the outline of the history of wars between the Medes and Assyria from the 9th century onwards is presented which is followed by the brief description of the Assyrian forces of the era and detailed examination of the events until the fall of the Neo-Assyrian empire. In conclusions an attempt to reconstruct …

  • Consequences of the Battle of Satala (298)

    Open AccessKatarzyna Maksymiuk, Parviz HOSSEIN TALAEEARTICLEHistoria i Świat2022Cited by: 1

    The priority for the Sasanid rulers was to eliminate from the throne of Armenia, the Parthian Arsacid dynasty, linked by blood ties to the formerly abolished Iranian ruling dynasty. In 298, the Battle of Satala took place in Armenia, in which the Roman army commanded by Caesar Galerius won a crushing victory over the Sassanian troops headed by King Narseh. The Romans captured huge amounts of booty and captured the Persian royal family. The campai…

  • ‘Industrial espionage’ of Justinian I (527-565)

    Open AccessKatarzyna MaksymiukARTICLEHistoria i Świat2021

    Economic espionage especially with regard to luxury goods has been known since Antiquity. A key event in economic history of late Antiquity is smuggling of the silk worms, described by the Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea in his eighth book of the Wars

  • Is cross always Christian? A study on iconography of Sasanian seals

    Open AccessKatarzyna Maksymiuk, Patryk Skupniewicz et al.ARTICLECogent Arts and Humanities2021References: 8

    The article analyses the semiotics of religious symbols appearing on selected Sasanian seals. The core of the research are the seals on which a cross and a scorpion are depicted together. The authors tackle the two research hypotheses concerning the interpretation of the iconography of these seals. The first (by Rika Gyselen) is the identification of the seals as Christian seals. The second (by Abolala Soudavar) attributes the seals to Mithraism.…

  • Relevance of the Diplomatic Activities of Xusrō I Anōšīrvān in China for the Military and Political Situation in the Far East in Sixth Century CE

    Open AccessKatarzyna MaksymiukCHAPTERArchaeology of Iran in the…2020

  • Preliminary report of Māhūr tomb, a Mithraism relic at Dezfūl, Southern Iran

    Open AccessGholamreza Karamian, Katarzyna Maksymiuk et al.ARTICLEHistoria i Świat2020

    Tomb of Māhūr is located at a village called Mahur Berenji, district of Sardasht a part of Dezfūl, Khuzestan province, Southern Iran. This tomb has been discovered by Karamian and Astraki in 2018. There is a four-legged cross symbol in the above part of the tomb entrance

  • Marriage and divorce law in Pre-Islamic Persia. Legal status of the Sassanid’ woman (224–651 AD)

    Open AccessKatarzyna Maksymiuk, Martina TopićARTICLECogent Arts and Humanities2019

    For more than 400 years, the Sassanid Persia was the greatest state in Asia. Zoroastrianism supported by Shahanshahs had an immense influence on the legal principles of the state. The Sassanian society was Patriarchy, based on the society’s gender construction. Because the patriarchal constructions of social practices were legitimized by religion, the basic limitation of the women’s rights in the Sassanian period was the obligation to have the ma…

  • Comparison and some similarities between Polish language and Iranian languages (case study of Old Persian, Pahlav, Middle Persian and Lori language)

    Open AccessGholamreza Karamian, Katarzyna MaksymiukARTICLEHistoria i Świat2019

    In general the Slavic languages has a lot in common with old Iranian languages. As Polish language and some Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family. The similarity between two languages seems to be possible. This brief note could give new insight in Indo European cultural relations

  • Gordāfarid, Penthesilea and Athena

    Open AccessPatryk Skupniewicz, Katarzyna MaksymiukARTICLEMediterranean Historical Review2019Cited by: 2References: 22

    The description of the duel between Gordāfarid and Sohrāb in Ferdowsī’s Šāh-nāma carries structural resemblances to the depiction of Penthesilea’s fight with Achilles. In the course of combat, the armour of both female warriors is damaged and their true identities are revealed after being defeated by their male opponents. In case of the Amazon from the Greek tale, the sudden revelation of her womanly appeal takes place after her death, whereas Go…

  • Caucasian Albanian Warriors in the Armies of pre-Islamic Iran

    Open AccessKaveh Farrokh, Javier Sánchez-Gracia et al.ARTICLEHistoria i Świat2019References: 5

    Albania, an ancient country in the Caucasus, was turned into a Sasanian province by Šāpūr I (c. 253). The Albanians became increasingly integrated into the battle order of the Iranian army (especially cavalry). All along the Caspian coast the Sasanians built powerful defense works, designed to bar the way to invaders from the north. The most celebrated of these fortifications are those of Darband in Caucasian Albania. Albania remained an integral…

  • The dissolution of the Society of Jesus and its influence on the development of mathematical and natural sciences education in the Principal School of the Realm in Cracow

    Józef Piłatowicz, Katarzyna MaksymiukARTICLEPaedagogica Historica2019Cited by: 1

    The new model of Polish education was designed by the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (KEN). The Commission, established in 1773, was the first ministry of education in Europe. It dealt not only with problems related to the learning–teaching process, but also promoted scientific development.The present analysis is an attempt at examining the process of implementation of the Enlightenment-based education system in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in …

  • Strategic aims of Šāpur II during the campaign in northern Mesopotamia (359-360)

    Open AccessKatarzyna MaksymiukARTICLEHistoria i Świat2018Cited by: 1References: 3

    In 359, Šāpur II (r. 309-379) led his army against Rome. This campaign became a milestone for the balance of power in Romano-Iranian borderlands. After seventy three Šāpur succeeded in breaking through the defenses and in sacking the city of Amida . According to Ammianus Marcellinus long lasting, heroic defense of Amida saved the Roman cities of Cappadocia from sacking. The author of the article believes that Amida was initial and primary target …