Tabaristan
The old Iranian region of Tabaristan (today's provinces of Māzandarān and Golestan ) stretched along the southeast and south coast of the Caspian Sea north of today's capital Tehran and had an extension of about 500 km × 70 km.
history
In Tabaristan local dynasties were able to establish themselves again and again with a certain independence from the surrounding states.
Antiquity and the Middle Ages
This area belonged to the media for a long time and was linked to the Achaemenid Empire by a friendship treaty with Cyrus II . Thereafter, Tabaristan was mostly connected to the western neighboring province of Gilan .
In the early 9th century there was a rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate . The Zoroastrian Mazyar was able to take control of Tabaristan for a short time and persecuted Muslims until he was executed in 839. The area then came under the control of the Bawandids , who ruled as vassals of the various subsequent dynasties, including the Seljuks , Khorezm Shahs and Mongols . From 930 to 1090 the Ziyarid dynasty ruled Tabaristan .
Modern times
Shah Abbas I incorporated Mazandaran into his Safavid empire in 1596 and forced numerous Armenians , Circassians , Georgians , Kurds and Qajar Turks to settle in this area. The Italian explorer Pietro della Valle visited a town near Firūzkuh in 1618 . He noted that the women in Mazandaran never wore a veil and were not afraid to speak to foreigners. He also described the presence in the area of numerous Circassians and Georgians, the vast majority of whom were Christian, and added that he had never seen such politeness as the Mazandarans .
1723-1736 Gilan and Tabaristan were Russian , in 1921 the Iranian Soviet Republic was established in Gilan and Tabaristan.
See also
- At-tabarī
- Parthian
- Buyiden
- Dabuyids
- Darius I.
- Ekbatana
- Gorgan
- Persepolis
- Sahl ibn Bischr
- Sayyed Zahiruddin Mar'ashi