• Hind (also spelled Hindestan) was the name of a southeastern Sasanian province lying near the Indus River in modern-day southern Pakistan. The boundaries...
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  • Look up hind or Hind in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hind is a female deer, especially a red deer. Hind (Sasanian province) (262-484) Al-Hind, a Persian...
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    spelled Turgistan and Turestan) was a province of the Sasanian Empire located in present-day Pakistan. The province was mainly populated by Indo-Aryans...
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  • Sahasi II and governor and vassal of the Multan province, but was never dislodged. Abundant Sasanian mints but with significant variations in typology...
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    contemporaneous inscriptions refer to the polity — two of them are edicts by Sasanian Emperors that cursorily refer to the Paratarajas, one is a collection of...
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    Narseh (category 3rd-century Sasanian monarchs)
    seventh Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 293 to 303. The youngest son of Shapur I (r. 240–270), Narseh served as the governor of Sakastan, Hind and Turan...
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    Arab conquest of Fars (category Fars province articles missing geocoordinate data)
    subjugation of the Sasanian province of Pars, also known as Fars or Persis, to the Rashidun Caliphate under Umar. The Arab invasion of Sasanian Pars took place...
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    Paradan (category Provinces of the Sasanian Empire)
    Paradan or Paratan was a province of the Paratarajas and the Sasanian Empire. It was constituted from the present-day Balochistan region, which is divided...
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    Makran (category Sistan and Baluchestan province)
    SATRAPS SASANIAN HIND NAGAS KAMARUPA GAUDA SAMATATAS DAVAKA KIDARITES ABHIRAS VAKATAKAS GUPTA EMPIRE KUSHANO- SASANIANS SAKASTAN TURAN MAKRAN SASANIAN EMPIRE...
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    weakness; the Sasanian army had greatly exhausted itself in the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628. Following the execution of Sasanian shah Khosrow II...
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  • SATRAPS SASANIAN HIND NAGAS KAMARUPA GAUDA SAMATATAS DAVAKA KIDARITES ABHIRAS VAKATAKAS GUPTA EMPIRE KUSHANO- SASANIANS SAKASTAN TURAN MAKRAN SASANIAN EMPIRE...
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    largest empires in history. Abu Bakr began with Iraq, the richest province of the Sasanian Empire. He sent general Khalid ibn al-Walid to invade the Sassanian...
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    Sindh (redirect from Sindh province)
    Minnagara. Later on, Sasanian rulers from the reign of Shapur I claimed control of the Sindh area in their inscriptions, known as Hind. The local Rai dynasty...
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    Shapur I's inscription at the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht (category Sasanian inscriptions)
    Sakastan (Sistan), Turgistan/Turan, Makuran, Pardan/Paradene, Hind [India i.e. Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom], the Kushanshahr up to Peshawar/Pashkibur, and up...
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    their common paternal ancestor, Abd Manaf ibn Qusayy. Mu'awiya's mother, Hind bint Utba, was also a member of the Banu Abd Shams. In 624, Muhammad and...
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    Bahram V (category 5th-century Sasanian monarchs)
    Sasanian eastern provinces. It was also during his reign that the Arsacid line of Armenia was replaced by a marzban (governor of a frontier province,...
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    Bahram II (category 3rd-century Sasanian monarchs)
    Wahram II or Warahran II; Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭) was the fifth Sasanian King of Kings (shahanshah) of Iran, from 274 to 293. He was the son and...
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    Bahram IV (category 4th-century Sasanian monarchs)
    the Indian region of Sindh, which may have corresponded to the Sasanian province of Hind. Under Bahram IV, mints were established in the cities of Gundeshapur...
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    Touraj (2014). Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. I.B.Tauris. p. 17. ISBN 9780857716668. Daryaee, Touraj (2014). Sasanian Persia: The Rise...
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    of the Eastern Province later became inhabited by the Arab Lakhmids around 300 AD, with the coastal regions claimed by the Sasanians but governed by...
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    Margiana (category Provinces of the Sasanian Empire)
    the Achaemenid satrapy of Bactria, and a province within its successors, the Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian empires. It was located in the valley of...
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    components of the Nizar group, whose members served as auxiliaries of the Sasanian Empire. According to accounts in the history of al-Tabari (d. 923), the...
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    Central Asia. Khorasan was first established as a region under the Persian Sasanian Empire and expanded under the Umayyad Caliphate. Today, the lands of the...
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  • to 560 CE, when combined forces from the First Turkic Khaganate and the Sasanian Empire defeated them. After 560 CE, they established "principalities" in...
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  • Ibad (category Christians in the Sasanian Empire)
    Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, when the city was part of the Sasanian Empire and later the Caliphate. Of diverse tribal backgrounds, the ʿIbād...
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    Alchon Huns (category History of Ghazni Province)
    HUNS SASANIAN EMPIRE KIDARITES GUPTA EMPIRE Emergence of the Alchon tamgha During the reign of Shapur II, the Sasanian Empire and the Kushano-Sasanians gradually...
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    Muslim religious formulas instead of the coins' traditional, pre-Islamic Sasanian design; changing the language of the diwan (tax registers) of Iraq from...
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    regions successively conquered under Umar and himself, namely much of the Sasanian Empire, i.e. Iraq and Iran, and the former Byzantine territories of Syria...
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    Wars against rebel tribes in Arabia in 632–633, the initial campaigns in Sasanian Iraq in 633–634, and the conquest of Byzantine Syria in 634–638. As a horseman...
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    and in the scene of a prince breaking in a foal depicted on an Eastern Sasanian silver dish attributed to the first half of the fourth century. Nicholas...
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