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Localisation:

  • Iran, Kerman
  • geo:30.28974,57.100136
  • Précision ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • 2xx / 14xx

Classification:

  • Ville
  • Visible

Identificateurs:

  • vici:place=54872

Annotations

Il n'y a pas une annotation en français. Présenté est une annotation en Anglais.

Kerman has a long history and was known to the Greeks as Karamani. Ptolemy and Ammianus Marcellinus mention the country under the name Carmania. According the tradition it was founded as a defensive outpost, with the name Ardashir-Khoreh, by Ardashīr I (reigned 224–241 AD) founder of the Sasanian Empire, in the 3rd century AD.

Soucers:

  1. LE STRANGE Guy (1905), the lands of the eastern caliphate - from the Moslem Conquest to the time of Timur, Cambridge Press (https://archive.org/details/landsofeasternca00lest)
  2. Xavier de Planhol and Bernard Hourcade, “KERMAN ii. Historical Geography,” Encyclopædia Iranica, XVI/3, pp. 251-265 (https://iranicaonline.org/articles/kerman-historical-geography)

Kerman has a long history and was known to the Greeks as Karamani. Ptolemy and Ammianus Marcellinus mention the country under the name Carmania. According the tradition it was founded as a defensive outpost, with the name Ardashir-Khoreh, by Ardashīr I (reigned 224–241 AD) founder of the Sasanian Empire, in the 3rd century AD.

Soucers:

  1. LE STRANGE Guy (1905), the lands of the eastern caliphate - from the Moslem Conquest to the time of Timur, Cambridge Press (https://archive.org/details/landsofeasternca00lest)
  2. Xavier de Planhol and Bernard Hourcade, “KERMAN ii. Historical Geography,” Encyclopædia Iranica, XVI/3, pp. 251-265 (https://iranicaonline.org/articles/kerman-historical-geography)

Oasis; ancient settlemen


Musées associés

Tabriz, Azerbaijan Museum

Tabriz, Azerbaijan Museum


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