Garmekan or Garamig was an early Sasanian province located in northern Mesopotamia, between the Little Zab and Diyala river.[1] Its capital was Karka d-Beth Slokh.[2] The province is omitted in Shapur I's (r. 240–270) list of provinces in the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht inscription, which indicates that it was part of Nodshiragan during that period.[2] Garmekan is first attested as a Sasanian province in the Paikuli inscription of Narseh (r. 271–293) in 293/4,[3] who describes how the aristocracy of Asoristan, Garmekan, and Shahrazur met him at Hayan i Nikatra in order to convince him to become the new king.[4] Before the Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon in 410, Garmekan had been merged with the province of Nodshiragan, becoming known as Garamig ud Nodardashiragan.[3]
| Garmekan Garmekān | |||||||||
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| Province of the Sasanian Empire | |||||||||
| 293/4–before 410 | |||||||||
 Map of Garmekan | |||||||||
| Capital | Karka d-Beth Slokh | ||||||||
| Historical era | Late Antiquity | ||||||||
• Established | 293/4 | ||||||||
• Merged with Nodshiragan | before 410 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Iraq | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ Marciak 2017, p. 261.
- ^ a b Shavarebi 2019, p. 368.
- ^ a b Marciak 2017, p. 411.
- ^ Morony 1989, p. 187.
Sources
edit- Marciak, Michał (2017). Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene: Three Regna Minora of Northern Mesopotamia Between East and West. BRILL. ISBN 9789004350724.
- Morony, Michael G. (1989). "Bēṯ Garmē". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. IV, Fasc. 2. p. 187.
- Morony, Michael G. (2005) [1984]. Iraq After The Muslim Conquest. Gorgias Press LLC. ISBN 978-1-59333-315-7.[permanent dead link]
- Shavarebi, Ehsan (2019). "Sasanians, Arsacids, Aramaeans: Ibn al-Kalbī's Account of Ardashīr's Western Campaign (2019)": 363–379.
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