Paršua

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Stations of the Scythian Gimirri in the 7th century BC During the lifetime of Teispes (shown on a map of modern-day Iran )

The land of Paršua (Avestisch Parsava), which is known from Assyrian and Urartian inscriptions, is equated in older research with the settlement area of Persian tribes.

Shalmaneser III. reports of the many kings of the Nairi , from which Salvini wants to infer a Persian tribal society with many chiefs.

The Karagündüz stele mentions Mešta and Paršua as the target of a campaign around 815 .

At the time of Argišti I. (3rd year of reign, around 784) Paršua was on the upper Dijala . Salvini locates Parsua in Urartu and wants to explain this with a migration of the Persian tribes, whereby individual tribes could remain in the old settlement area, a view that Gershevitch, Fisher and Boyle resolutely contradict.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Miroslav Salvini: The Influence of the Urartu Empire on the Political Conditions on the Iranian Plateau. In: Ricardo Eichmann / Hermann Parzinger (eds.), Migration und Kulturtransfer (Bonn 2001) 350
2. ↑ König, HCI 80 5V
3. ↑ Ilya Gershevitch, William Bayne Fisher, JA Boyle (ed.), The Cambridge History of Iran, 69

literature

• Louis D. Levine: Contributions to the historical geography of the Zagros in the Neo-Assyrian period. Microfiche 1969.

Web links

• Excerpt from The Cambridge History of Iran at google books