Greater Iran
Greater Iran, of course, is not an existing country. This category is intended for everything related to the area where, in Antiquity, people spoke an Iranian language, except for Persia.
There are 558 items in Greater Iran:
Sattagydians
Sattagydia (Old Persian Thataguš, country of the "hundred cows"): satrapy of the ancient Achaemenid empire, perhaps the mountains between Iran and Pakistan. …
Scortaru, Scythian cauldron |
Scythian arrowheads |
Scythian Dacia
Dacia: country north of the Lower Danube, more or less identical to modern Romania. It experienced influences from the Thracians, Scythians (below), Greeks, and Celts and became a powerful kingdom, added as a province to the Roman Empire, abandoned to…
Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag |
Scythians / Sacae
"Scythians" (Greek Σκύθαι) and "Sacae" (Old Persian Sakâ): two renderings of Skudat ("archers"?), the name of the nomads of the Central Asian plains. …Semiramis
Semiramis (Greek: Σεμίραμις): legendary queen of Assyria and founder of Babylon, known from Greek, Armenian, and Jewish sources.The name An Assyrian…
Shashtepa, Fragment of a rhyton |
Shorsuv, Portrait of a warrior |
Silk Road
The Silk Road is the modern name for the network of trade routes between the Mediterranean Sea and China. The Silk Road At…
Sinatruces |
Singara (Sinjar)
Singara (Greek τὰ Σίγγαρα): Roman legionary base in eastern Mesopotamia, occupied by the First Legion Parthica. The modern name is Balat Sinjar.History Singara is one the towns along the southernmost road from Assyria (east of the Tigris) to Syria (west of the…