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'''Artacoana'''<ref>[[Arrian]], [[Anabasis]] 3.25</ref> |
'''Artacoana'''<ref>[[Arrian]], [[Anabasis Alexandri|Anabasis]] 3.25</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Arrian |author-link=Arrian |date=1884 |title=[[s:The Anabasis of Alexander|The Anabasis of Alexander]] |location=London |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |chapter=[[s:The Anabasis of Alexander/Book III/Chapter XXV|Chapter XXV: March to Bactra.—Bessus Aided by Satibaezanes.]]|page=[[s:The Anabasis of Alexander/Book III/Chapter XXV#192|192–193]]|volume=3 |translator=E.J. Chinnock}}</ref> ({{lang-grc|Ἀρτακόανα}}) or '''Artacana'''<ref>[[Quintus Curtius Rufus|Curtius]] 6. 6.33</ref> or '''Articaudna'''<ref>[[Ptolemy]], [[Ptolemy's Geography]]</ref> ({{lang|grc|Ἀρτίκαυδνα}}) or '''Chortacana'''<ref>[[Diodorus]] 17.78.1</ref> or '''Artacaena''',<ref>[[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]], [[Pliny's Natural History|Natural History]] 6.61.93; [[Strabo]] 11.10.1</ref> name of the capital of [[Aria (satrapy)|Aria]], an eastern [[satrapy]] of the [[Persian empire]]. |
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In late 330 B.C. [[Alexander the Great]], according to his biographers, captured Artacoana, the Areian capital.<ref>Arrian, Anabasis 3.25</ref> Later, a new capital was built, either by Alexander himself or by his successors, Alexandria Ariana ({{lang|grc|Ἀλεξάνδρεια ἡ ἐν Ἀρίοις}}), modern [[Herat]] in northwest [[Afghanistan]]. Ptolemy lists several other cities, an indication of the province's wealth and fertility. The most important, according to Ptolemy were:<ref>[http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView/ECHOzogiLib?url=/mpiwg/online/permanent/library/ZE7BF82D/pageimg&pn=114&ws=1.5&mode=imagepath&start=111 European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO), Ptolemaeus, Claudius, Geografia : cioè descrittione vniversale (universale) della terra; partita in due volumi, 1621, pages 114 & 115]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lXJMAAAAMAAJ&dq=Artacoana+Articaudna+Artacoana&pg=PA206 Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières par une société de gens de lettres, de savants et d'artistes (1871), page 206]</ref> |
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The etymology of this name remains unknown, and whether this place should be identified with the modern city of [[Herat]] is also uncertain, although the strategic position of modern Herat would suggest its great antiquity; and thus the possibility remains that they are one and the same place. In the early nineteenth century a Persian [[Achaemenid]] cuneiform cylinder seal was found in or near Herat.<ref>Torrens, 1842</ref> |
The etymology of this name remains unknown, and whether this place should be identified with the modern city of [[Herat]] is also uncertain, although the strategic position of modern Herat would suggest its great antiquity; and thus the possibility remains that they are one and the same place. In the early nineteenth century a Persian [[Achaemenid]] cuneiform cylinder seal was found in or near Herat.<ref>Torrens, 1842</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 19:55, 11 December 2023
Artacoana[1][2] (Ancient Greek: Ἀρτακόανα) or Artacana[3] or Articaudna[4] (Ἀρτίκαυδνα) or Chortacana[5] or Artacaena,[6] name of the capital of Aria, an eastern satrapy of the Persian empire.
In late 330 B.C. Alexander the Great, according to his biographers, captured Artacoana, the Areian capital.[7] Later, a new capital was built, either by Alexander himself or by his successors, Alexandria Ariana (Ἀλεξάνδρεια ἡ ἐν Ἀρίοις), modern Herat in northwest Afghanistan. Ptolemy lists several other cities, an indication of the province's wealth and fertility. The most important, according to Ptolemy were:[8][9]
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The etymology of this name remains unknown, and whether this place should be identified with the modern city of Herat is also uncertain, although the strategic position of modern Herat would suggest its great antiquity; and thus the possibility remains that they are one and the same place. In the early nineteenth century a Persian Achaemenid cuneiform cylinder seal was found in or near Herat.[10]
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References[edit]
- ^ Arrian, Anabasis 3.25
- ^ Arrian (1884). . . Vol. 3. Translated by E.J. Chinnock. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. .
- ^ Curtius 6. 6.33
- ^ Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Geography
- ^ Diodorus 17.78.1
- ^ Pliny, Natural History 6.61.93; Strabo 11.10.1
- ^ Arrian, Anabasis 3.25
- ^ European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO), Ptolemaeus, Claudius, Geografia : cioè descrittione vniversale (universale) della terra; partita in due volumi, 1621, pages 114 & 115
- ^ Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières par une société de gens de lettres, de savants et d'artistes (1871), page 206
- ^ Torrens, 1842
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