Maishan

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Maishan
Province of the Sassanian Empire
←
226–637 →
Historical era Late Antiquity
 - Sassanid conquest 226
 - Rashidun conquest 637
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Maishan was a satrapy (province) of the Sassanid Empire. It consisted of the Parthian vassal kingdoms of Mesene and 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]

See also

  • Asorestan

References

  1. ↑ The Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 3(2): The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian Periods, ed. Ehsan Yarshater (NY: Cambridge UP, 1983), 754-757.
Provinces of the Sasanian Empire
* indicates short living provinces during the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628

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