Turan (Sasanian province)
Province of the Sasanian Empire
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- Turan (also spelled Turgistan and Turestan ) was a province of the Sasanian Empire located in present-day southwestern Pakistan.
- The main city and bastion of the province was Bauterna (Khuzdar/Quzdar).
- 224–242 ) in 230 AD.
- Then envoys of the king of the Kushan, of the kings of Turan and Mokran came to him with declarations of their submission.
- The province is mentioned in Shapur I's inscription at the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht of 262 CE, among the many provinces of the Sasanian Empire: "And I (Shapur I) possess the lands: Fars Persis, Pahlav (Parthia) (.
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WikipediaTuran (also spelled Turgistan and Turestan) was a province of the Sasanian Empire located in present-day southwestern Pakistan. The province was mainly populated by Indo-Aryans, and bordered Paradan in the west, Hind in the east, Sakastan in the north, and Makuran in the south. The main city and bastion of the province was Bauterna (Khuzdar/Quzdar).
The province had been a kingdom under the Indo-Parthian king Pahares I, before submitting to the first Sasanian monarch Ardashir I (r. 224–242) in 230 AD. These events were recorded by al-Tabari, describing the arrival of envoys from Makran and Turan to Ardeshir at Gor:
Then he [Ardashir] marched back from the Sawad to Istakhr, from there first to Sagistan, then to Gurgan, then to Abrasahr, Merv, Balkh, and Khwarizm to the farthest boundaries of the provinces of Kohrasan, whereupon he returned to Merv. After he had killed many people and sent their heads to the Fire temple of Anahedh he returned from Merv to Pars and settled in Gor. Then envoys of the king of the Kushan, of the kings of Turan and Mokran came to him with declarations of their submission.
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