Parthia

Parthia as part of the Persian Empire southeast of the Caspian Sea, 490 BC Chr.

Parthia is an ancient landscape in the north of present-day Iran and in the south of present-day Turkmenistan . In the Achaemenid Empire this landscape and Hyrcania formed a double satrapy . Parthia for the first time in the Behistun Inscription of Darius I called. Alexander the Great conquered this province of the Achaemenid Empire, after which it became part of the Seleucid Empire and was still administered by satraps. At a not precisely determined time, the Parner , a nomadic tribe belonging to the Scythians , immigrated to the region and took over the name of the province. Around 245 BC When a certain Andragoras administered the province, the partners broke away from the Seleucid Empire and founded the Parthian Empire .

literature

Malcolm AR Colledge: The Parthians . Thames and Hudson, London 1967, pp. 15-25.

Individual evidence

↑ Hilmar Klinkott: The Satrap. An Achaemenid office bearer and his room for maneuver (= Oikumene. Studies on ancient world history; Vol. 1), Verlag Antike, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-938032-02-2 , pp. 473–474

[1] Hilmar Klinkott: The Satrap. An Achaemenid office bearer and his room for maneuver (= Oikumene. Studies on ancient world history; Vol. 1), Verlag Antike, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-938032-02-2 , pp. 473–474