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	Parthia (1)
		From 316 on, the satrapy was ruled by Stasander, who was already satrap of Bactria, and must have seized Aria and Margiana too (which were situated between Parthia and his own satrapy).
		When Darius' son Xerxes attacked Greece in 480 BCE, the Parthian contingent was -according to the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus- commanded by Artabazus, the son of Pharnaces, the chief economic official of the Achaemenid empire.
		When the empire was divided at Triparadisus (320), it was allotted to one Philip, but two years later, the satrap of Media, Peithon, seized the country and appointed his brother Eudamus; however, the other satraps unitedly drove them back.
	www.livius.org /pan-paz/parthia/parthia01.html (719 words)

	Parthia (1)
		From 316 on, the satrapy was ruled by Stasander, who was already satrap of Bactria, and must have seized Aria and Margiana too (which were situated between Parthia and his own satrapy).
		In the confusion, Parthia was attacked by the Parni, a nomad tribe from the Central-Asian steppe.
		The Persian satrap of Parthia was Hystaspes, the father of the new Persian king; he managed to stand his ground against the Parthian rebels in the city Vishpauzâtish, where he repelled his enemies on March 8, 521.
	www.livius.org /pan-paz/parthia/parthia01.html (719 words)

	Parthia (1)
		From 316 on, the satrapy was ruled by Stasander, who was already satrap of Bactria, and must have seized Aria and Margiana too (which were situated between Parthia and his own satrapy).
		The Persian satrap of Parthia was Hystaspes, the father of the new Persian king; he managed to stand his ground against the Parthian rebels in the city Vishpauzâtish, where he repelled his enemies on March 8, 521.
		The borders of Parthia were the Kopet Dag mountain range in the north (today the border between Iran and Turkmenistan) and the Dasht-e-Kavir desert in the south.
	www.livius.org /pan-paz/parthia/parthia01.html (719 words)

	Parthia (1)
		From 316 on, the satrapy was ruled by Stasander, who was already satrap of Bactria, and must have seized Aria and Margiana too (which were situated between Parthia and his own satrapy).
		In the confusion, Parthia was attacked by the Parni, a nomad tribe from the Central-Asian steppe.
		The Persian satrap of Parthia was Hystaspes, the father of the new Persian king; he managed to stand his ground against the Parthian rebels in the city Vishpauzâtish, where he repelled his enemies on March 8, 521.
	www.livius.org /pan-paz/parthia/parthia01.html (719 words)

	Parthia (1)
		From 316 on, the satrapy was ruled by Stasander, who was already satrap of Bactria, and must have seized Aria and Margiana too (which were situated between Parthia and his own satrapy).
		When the empire was divided at Triparadisus (320), it was allotted to one Philip, but two years later, the satrap of Media, Peithon, seized the country and appointed his brother Eudamus; however, the other satraps unitedly drove them back.
		When Darius' son Xerxes attacked Greece in 480 BCE, the Parthian contingent was -according to the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus- commanded by Artabazus, the son of Pharnaces, the chief economic official of the Achaemenid empire.
	www.livius.org /pan-paz/parthia/parthia01.html (719 words)

	Parthia
		In the west was Media, in the northwest Hyrcania, in the northeast Margiana, in the southeast Aria.
		In 331, they fought on the side of king Darius III Codomannus in his struggle against the Macedonian invader Alexander the Great; during the battle of Gaugamela (October 1), they were commanded by Phrataphernes, who surrendered his satrapy when Alexander arrived in the summer of 330.
		The borders of Parthia were the Kopet Dag mountain range in the north (today the border between Iran and Turkmenistan) and the Dasht-e-Kavir desert in the south.
	www.rozanehmagazine.com /JulyAugust04/aparthians.html (687 words)

	Livius Picture Archive: Susia (Tus)
		Susia (modern Tus or Tush, 25 kilometers northwest of the holy city of Mashad in Iran) was situated in either the eastern part of the satrapy of Parthia or western Aria.
		This is Firdausi's statue (a copy can be seen in the Villa Borghese park in Rome); inside the mausoleum, which is inspired by Achaemenid architecture, are fine sculptures by Feryedun Sedighi.
		In the gardens of the mausoleum of Firdausi (below), one can see the rather disappointing remains of the ancient citadel of Susia, which are usually dated to the Sassanid age.
	www.livius.org /a/iran/tush/susia.html (284 words)

	Archaeology Wordsmith
		DEFINITION: A town and province in western Afghanistan, important in pre-Islamic times and sometimes identified as the capital of the Achaemenid satrapy of Aria and the Hellenistic city of Alexandria Ariana.
		The principal monuments of Herat were built in the reigns of the Timurid rulers Shah Rukh (1405-1447), the son of Timur, and Husain Baikara (1469-1506).
	www.reference-wordsmith.com /cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?category=&where=headword&terms=Herat (56 words)

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