Carmania
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf
Creators: M. Roaf
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, Mary E. Downs
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 02, 2026 04:42 PM
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History
A province of both the Achaemenid Empire and the Sassanid Empire.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29517
27.4992930482, 57.0291406073
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (550 BC - AD 640)
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- Καρμανία (Carmania: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - AD 640)
- Carmania part of (administrative) Sasanian Empire (AD 224 - AD 651)
- Alexandria in Carmania part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Anamis/Andanis/Ananis (river) part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Aradarum/Hardea/Ardea part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Arai part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Archedotis/Arciotis part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Badis part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Charadrai part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Hermupolis part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Hyctanis (river) part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Kophanta part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Kophanta/Kophas part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Parsika (mountain) bounds Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Portospana part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Portus Macedonum part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Saganos part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Salmous part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Semiramis (mountain) part of (physical/topographic) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Soxotai part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
- Zetis part of (regional) Carmania (unspecified date range)
region
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 3 G4 Carmania
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: IRN
M. Roaf, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, and Mary E. Downs, 'Carmania: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29517> [accessed: 08 May 2026]
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