Khvarvaran
Sign in to saveKhvārvarān was a military quarter of the Sasanian Empire. Intensive irrigation agriculture of the lower Tigris and Euphrates and of tributaries such as the Diyala and the Karun formed the empire's main resource base.
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Khvārvarān was a military quarter of the Sasanian Empire. Intensive irrigation agriculture of the lower Tigris and Euphrates and of tributaries such as the Diyala and the Karun formed the empire's main resource base.
==Etymology== The Arabic term Iraq was not used at this time. In the mid-6th century, the Sasanian Empire was divided by Khosrow I into four quarters. The western one was called Khvārvarān and included most of modern Iraq and was subdivided to the provinces of Meshan, Asuristan, Adiabene and Media. The term Iraq is widely used in the medieval Arabic sources for the area in the centre and the south of the modern republic as a geographic rather than a political, term, implying no precise boundaries.
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