Michael Weiskopf
- ASIA MINOR
ASIA MINOR, Irano-Anatolian relations. Cyrus the Great gave Iranians control over Anatolia. Settlement, some forced, continued until his House fell in the…
- DASCYLIUM
DASCYLIUM, Achaemenid satrapy in northwestern Anatolia (Herodotus, 3.120.2; cf. Thucydides 1.129.1: tḕn Daskulitìn satrapeían; OPers. tayaiy drayahyā; DB 1.15; Kent,…
- DĀRĀ (City)
DĀRĀ, the name of a Parthian city and of a Byzantine garrison town of the Sasanian period. Parthian Dārā. This…
- CYPRUS
CYPRUS, an island in the eastern Mediterranean off the southern coast of central Anatolia, not mentioned in any of the…
- COMMAGENE
COMMAGENE, the portion of southwestern Asia Minor (modern Turkey) bordered on the east by the Euphrates river, on the west…
- CILICIA
CILICIA (3rd-cent. CE Mid. Pers. klkyʾy, Parth. kylkyʾ), the southeastern portion of the present Turkish coast, a satrapy of the Achaemenid…
- CICERO
CICERO, as a source for Parthian history. In 51 b.c.e., two years after the Parthian destruction of the Roman legions…
- CASTOLUS
CASTOLUS, a plain east of Sardis, site of the mustering of troops from the satrapy of Sparda (Lydia) during Achaemenid…
- CARIA
CARIA, Achaemenid satrapy in the area of southwestern Turkey. Caria was under Achaemenid rule first as a part of the…
- CAPPADOCIA
CAPPADOCIA, Anatolian Achaemenid satrapy, Hellenistic-era Iranian kingdom, and imperial Roman province. The Old Persian name of the satrapy was Katpatuka;…
- BESSOS
BESSOS, satrap of Bactria and last Achaemenid king (ca. 336-329 b.c.). His career as described by Greco-Roman historians of Alexander’s…