Gizilbunda

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Gizilbunda was an Iron Age kingdom in Persia , which, according to Sargon II, is a land of distant mountains, between the land of the Medes and the Manneans .

Reade locates it in the Elburs Mountains , on the west coast of the Caspian Sea , which the annalists of Šamši-Adad V mistakenly identified with the "Sea of ​​Sunset", the Mediterranean Sea . It could also be Lake Urmia .

Campaigns against Gizilbunda are under Šamši-Adad V. (3rd campaign, 819 BC), Adad-nīrārī III. (802?) And Sargon II .

literature

  • Julian Reade: Iran in the Neo-Assyrian Period . In: Mario Liverani (Ed.): Neo-Assyrian geography (Quaderni de geografia storica; Vol. 5). Universita di Roma, Rome 1995, pp. 31-42.