Meshan
Province of the Sasanian Empire / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Sasanian province. For the earlier kingdom, see Characene. For the church province, see Maishan (East Syriac ecclesiastical province).
Meshan (Middle Persian: š¬š©š±š š) was a province of the Sasanian Empire. It consisted of the Parthian vassal kingdom of Characene and reached north along the Shatt al-Arab river and then the lower Tigris to Madhar and possibly further. Its inhabitants included Babylonians, Arabs, Iranians, and even some Indians and Malays (the Malays may have been slaves brought from the Indian sub-continent). The province was very fertile, the best place for barley according to Strabo, and contained many date palms. It was also an important trading province along the Persian Gulf.[1]
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Meshan | |||||||||
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Province of the Sassanian Empire | |||||||||
224ā637 | |||||||||
Map of Meshan and its surrounding provinces | |||||||||
Capital | Karkh Meshan (224ā410) Vahman-Ardashir (410ā637) | ||||||||
Historical era | Late Antiquity | ||||||||
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Today part of | Iraq Kuwait |
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