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Hyrcania
Sign in to saveHyrcania (; Hyrkanía, Old Persian: 𐎺𐎼𐎣𐎠𐎴 Varkâna, Middle Persian: 𐭢𐭥𐭫𐭢𐭠𐭭 Gurgān, Akkadian: Urqananu) is a historical region composed of the land south-east of the Caspian Sea in modern-day Iran and Turkmenistan, bound in the south by the Alborz mountain range and the Kopet Dag in the east.
Key facts
- Former Subdivision.native_name
- Gurgān
- Former Subdivision.conventional_long_name
- Hyrcania
- Former Subdivision.common_name
- Hyrcania
- Former Subdivision.subdivision
- Province
- Former Subdivision.nation
- the Median, Achaemenid, Seleucid, Arsacid, and Sasanian Empire
- Former Subdivision.era
- Antiquity
- Former Subdivision.capital
- Zadracarta(548 BC–225 AD)Gurgān(225–651 AD)
- Former Subdivision.image_map
- Map of the Achaemenid Empire.jpg
- Former Subdivision.image_map_caption
- Achaemenid Empire, with Province of Hyrcania
- Former Subdivision.year_start
- 548 BC
- Former Subdivision.year_end
- 651 AD
- Former Subdivision.event_end
- Fall of the Sasanian Empire
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- Etymology
- History
- Pre-Hellenistic Period
- Hellenistic Period
- Post-Hellenistic period
- Religion
- Literary references
- List of governors
- See also
- References
- Sources
Hyrcania (; Hyrkanía, Old Persian: 𐎺𐎼𐎣𐎠𐎴 Varkâna, Middle Persian: 𐭢𐭥𐭫𐭢𐭠𐭭 Gurgān, Akkadian: Urqananu) is a historical region composed of the land south-east of the Caspian Sea in modern-day Iran and Turkmenistan, bound in the south by the Alborz mountain range and the Kopet Dag in the east.
The region served as a satrapy (province) of the Median Empire, a sub-province of the Achaemenid Empire, and a province within its successors, the Seleucid, Arsacid and Sasanian empires. Hyrcania bordered Parthia to the east (later known as Abarshahr), Dihistan to the north, Media to the south and Mardia to the west.