What was the original name for the region where Zarmihr Karen served as Sasanian governor?
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Zarmihr Karen Zarmihr Karen (died 558) was an Iranian nobleman from the House of Karen, who served as the Sasanian governor of Zabulistan. He was the son of Sukhra.
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Zabulistan Zabulistan (Persian/Pashto: زابلستان ; "Zabul" + "-stan"), originally known as "Zavolistan", is a historical region roughly corresponding to today's Zabul Province in southern Afghanistan. Zabulistan translates to "land of Zabul" or "land of the Zabuls". The name "Zabuls" is probably a transliteration of Zunbils, a pagan dynasty that ruled the area during the Islamic conquest of Afghanistan.
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Azerbaijan (Iran) Azerbaijan or Azarbaijan (Persian: آذربایجان‎ ‎ "Āzarbāijān" ] ; Azerbaijani: آذربایجان‎ "Azərbaycan" ), also known as Iranian Azerbaijan, is a region in northwestern Iran that borders Iraq, Turkey, the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan. Iranian Azerbaijan is administratively divided into West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, and Zanjan provinces. The region is mostly populated by Azerbaijanis, with minority populations of Kurds, Armenians, Tats, Talysh, Assyrians and Persians.
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History of Kutch The history of Kutch, a region in the extreme west of the western Indian state of Gujarat, can be traced back to prehistorical times. There are several sites related to Indus valley civilization in region and is mentioned in Hindu mythology. In historical times, Kutch is mentioned in Greek writings during Alexander. It was ruled by Menander I of Greco-Bactrian Kingdom which was overthrown by Indo-Scythians followed by Maurya Empire and Sakas. in the first century, it was under Western Satraps followed by Gupta Empire. By fifth century, Maitraka of Valabhi took over from which its close association with ruling clans of Gujarat started. Chavdas ruled the eastern and central parts by seventh century but were came under Chaulukyas by tenth century. After fall of Chaulukya, Vaghelas ruled the state. Following conquest of Sindh by Muslim rulers, Rajput Samma started moving southwards to Kutch and ruled western regions initially. By tenth century, they controlled significant area of Kutch and by thirteenth century they controlled whole of Kutch and adopted a new dynastic identity, Jadeja.
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Russian Turkestan Russian Turkestan (Russian: Русский Туркестан , "Russkiy Turkestan") was the western part of Turkestan within the Russian Empire (administered as a Krai or Governor-Generalship), comprising the oasis region to the south of the Kazakh steppes, but not the protectorates of the Emirate of Bukhara and the Khanate of Khiva.
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Ayrarat Ayrarat (Armenian: Այրարատ ) was a province of old Armenia (c. 300–800). The main city was Oshakan. It is believed that the name "Ayrarat" is the Armenian equivalent of the toponym "Urartu" (Armenian: Արարատ , Ararat).
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Kurdistan Kurdistan ( or ) (Kurdish: کوردستان‎ ; ] ; lit. "homeland of the Kurds") or Greater Kurdistan is a roughly defined geo-cultural region wherein the Kurdish people form a prominent majority population, and Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. Kurdistan roughly encompasses the northwestern Zagros and the eastern Taurus mountain ranges.
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Achaemenid Empire The Achaemenid Empire ( ; c. 550–330 BC ), also called the First Persian Empire, was an empire based in Western Asia, founded by Cyrus the Great. Ranging at its greatest extent from the Balkans and Eastern Europe proper in the west to the Indus Valley in the east, it was one of the largest empires in history, spanning 5.5 million square kilometers, and was larger than any previous empire in history. It is equally notable for its successful model of a centralised, bureaucratic administration (through satraps under the King of Kings), for building infrastructure such as road systems and a postal system, the use of an official language across its territories, and the development of civil services and a large professional army. The empire's successes inspired similar systems in later empires. It is noted in Western history as the antagonist of the Greek city-states during the Greco-Persian Wars and for the emancipation of the Jewish exiles in Babylon.
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Kirman (Sasanian province) Kirman (Middle Persian: "Kirmān") was a Sasanian province in Late Antiquity, which almost corresponded to the present-day province of Kerman. The province bordered Pars in the west, Abarshahr and Sakastan in the northeast, Paradan in the east, Spahan in the north, and Mazun in the south. The capital of the province of Shiragan.
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Hyrcania Hyrcania ( ) (Greek: "Hyrkania", Old Persian: "Varkâna", Middle Persian: "Gurgān", Akkadian: "Urqananu") is a historical region composed of the land south-east of the Caspian Sea in modern-day Iran, bound in the south by the Alborz mountain range and the Kopet Dag in the east.
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Bactria Bactria or Bactriana was the name of a historical region in Central Asia. Bactria proper was north of the Hindu Kush mountain range and south of the Amu Darya river, covering the flat region that straddles modern-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. More broadly Bactria was the area north of the Hindu Kush, west of the Pamirs and south of the Tian Shan with the Amu Darya flowing west through the center.
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Ghaznavids The Ghaznavid dynasty (Persian: غزنویان‎ ‎ "ġaznaviyān") was a Persianate Muslim dynasty of Turkic "mamluk" origin, at their greatest extent ruling large parts of Iran, Afghanistan, much of Transoxiana, and the northwest Indian subcontinent from 977–1186. The dynasty was founded by Sabuktigin, upon his succession to rule of Ghazna after the death of his father-in-law, Alp Tigin, who was a breakaway ex-general of the Samanid Empire from Balkh, north of the Hindu Kush in Greater Khorasan.
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Muslim conquest of Persia The Muslim conquest of Persia, also known as the Arab conquest of Iran, led to the end of the Sasanian Empire in 651 and the eventual decline of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia.
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Zaporizhian Sich The Zaporozhian Sich (, "Zaporoz'ka Sich"; Polish: "Sicz Zaporoska" ; Russian: Запорожская Сечь ) was a semi-autonomous polity of Cossacks in the 16th to 18th centuries, centred in the region around today's Kakhovka Reservoir spanning the lower Dnieper river in Ukraine. In different periods the area came under the sovereignty of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Ottoman Empire, the Tsardom of Russia, and the Russian Empire. In 1775, shortly after Russia annexed the territories ceded to it by the Ottoman Empire under the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (1774), Catherine the Great disbanded the Sich and incorporated its territory into the Russian province of Novorossiya.
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Karabakh Karabakh (Azerbaijani: "Qarabağ" ) is a geographic region in southwestern Azerbaijan, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to the lowlands between the rivers Kura and Aras. It includes three regions: Highland Karabakh, present-day Nagorno-Karabakh, Lowland Karabakh (the southern Kura-steppes), and a part of Syunik.
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History of Armenia Armenia lies in the highlands surrounding the Biblical mountains of Ararat. The original Armenian name for the country was Hayk, later Hayastan (Armenian: Հայաստան ), translated as the land of Haik, and consisting of the name of the ancient Mesopotamian god Haya (ha-ià) and the Persian suffix '-stan' ("land"). The historical enemy of Hayk (the legendary ruler of Armenia), "Hayastan", was Bel, or in other words Baal (Akkadian cognate Bēlu). The word "Bel" is named in the Bible at Isaiah 46:1 and Jeremiah 50:2 and 51:44.
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Bokht-Ardashir Bokht-Ardashir (Middle Persian: "Bōkht-Artaxshīr", meaning "saved by Ardashir") was the name of a medieval town in the Sasanian province of Pars. It was founded in the early 3rd-century by the first Sasanian king Ardashir I (r. 224-242) after his flight from the court of the last Parthian king, Artabanus V. In 224, it was incorporated into the administrative division of Ardashir-Khwarrah.
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Shahrizor Eyalet Shahrizor Eyalet (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت شهر زور; Eyālet-i Šehr-i Zōr‎ ) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire covering the area of present-day Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Khwarezm Khwarezm or Chorasmia (Persian: خوارزم‎ ‎ , "Xvârazm") is a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia, bordered on the north by the (former) Aral Sea, on the east by the Kyzylkum desert, on the south by the Karakum desert, and on the west by the Ustyurt Plateau. It was the center of the Iranian Khwarezmian civilization and a series of kingdoms such as the Persian Empire, whose capitals were (among others) Kath, Gurganj (the modern Köneürgenç) and – from the 16th century on – Khiva. Today Khwarezm belongs partly to Uzbekistan, partly to Kazakhstan and partly to Turkmenistan.
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Parsua Parsua (earlier Parsuash, Parsumash) was an ancient tribal kingdom/chiefdom (860-600 BC) located near Lake Urmia between Zamua (formerly: Lullubi) and Ellipi, in central Zagros to the southwest of Sanandaj, northwestern Iran. The name "Parsua" is from an old Iranian word "*Parsava" and it is presumed to mean "border or borderland".
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Khosrow Soltan Armani Khosrow Soltan Armani, also known as Khosrow Khan (d. 1653), was a 17th-century Safavid official, military commander, and "gholam" of Armenian origin. He held numerous posts at various times. First, he served as the prefect of the Bakhtiari tribe for a lengthy period ("darughah-ye il-e Bakhtiyar"). Then, he served as a steward of the Javanshir tribe in Karabagh ("hakem-e il-e Javanshir"). Later, he held the post of "master of the hunt" ("mīr shekār-bāshi") and was given the governorship of Abhar (Soltaniyeh). Lastly, he also served as the governor ("beglarbeg") of Shirvan from 1643 to 1653. During his governorship in Shirvan, Khosrow participated in the successful Safavid offensive during the Russo-Persian War of 1651-1653, which resulted in the Russian fortress on the Iranian side of the Terek River being destroyed and its garrison expelled.
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Nok Kundi Nok Kundi ("the blunt point"), is a township and region in western Pakistan in the province of Balochistan. This region of western Pakistan, was historically known to these people as Dzaranga ("water producing land"). It was recorded by the Greeks and Hellenized to Drangiana in Greek literature. The original word for this region is Zaranka means ("watermill" or a "spring"). This word occurs in old Balochi and Persian as ("Waterland").