Parthian Empire

Overview

The Parthian Empire, also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political and cultural power centered in ancient Iran from 247 BC to 224 AD. Its latter name comes from its founder, Arsaces I, who led the Parni tribe in conquering the region of Parthia in Iran's northeast, then a satrapy (province) under Andragoras, who was rebelling against the Seleucid Empire. Mithridates I greatly expanded the empire by seizing Media and Mesopotamia from the Seleucids. At its height, the Parthian Empire stretched from the northern reaches of the Euphrates, in what is now central-eastern Turkey, to present-day Afghanistan and western Pakistan. The empire, located on the Silk Road trade route between the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean Basin and the Han dynasty of China, became a center of trade and commerce.

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Borders & accuracy

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

• SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
• DETAILhistorical-basemaps
• SNAPSHOT100 CE
• POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire15

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

• Roman-Parthian Wars53 BCE–217 CE
  Major conflict · 500K dead
• Battle of Carrhae53 BCE
  Major conflict · 20K dead
• Trajan's Parthian War114–117 CE
  Major conflict
• Battle of Mount Gindarus38 BCE
  Significant
• Year of the Five Emperors193–197 CE
  Significant
• Severan Parthian War197–199 CE
  Significant
• Roman–Sasanian wars224–363 CE
  Significant
• Battle of Arius208 BCE
  Regional
• Battle of Zab130 BCE
  Regional
• Battle of Ecbatana129 BCE
  Regional
• Battle of Phraaspa36 BCE
  Regional
• Battle of Arsanias62 CE
  Regional
• Battle of Ctesiphon198 CE
  Regional
• Battle of Atra199 CE
  Regional
• Battle of Hormizdagan224 CE
  Regional