Parsua (earlier Parsuash, Parsumash) was an ancient tribal kingdom/chiefdom (860-600 BC) located between Zamua (formerly: Lullubi) and Ellipi, in central...
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Piranshahr (section Parsua civilization)
Harpagus that saved Cyrus the Great. According to Minorsky, the ancient Parsua is identical with the name of the town Pasveh in Lajan District of Piranshahr...
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help of the Urartians. Sargon took Izirtu, and stationed troops in Parsua (Parsua was distinct from Parsumash located further southeast in what is today...
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empire called themselves the Parsa and their constantly shifting territory Parsua, for the most part localized around Persis. The name "Persia" is a Greek...
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inscription refers to another king, Jehoram of Israel. Its reference to Parsua is also the first known reference to the Persians. Tribute offerings are...
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on these campaigns. Only once, in 834, did Shalmaneser sally forth from Parsua in order to attack four settlements in the regions of "Messi, Amadaya, Araziaš...
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of Shalmaneser III, found at Nimrud, gives it in the Late Assyrian forms Parsua and Parsumaš as a region and a people located in the Zagros Mountains, the...
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in the 9th century B.C.E. in the west and southwest of Urmia lake. The Parsua (Pārsa) are mentioned there for the first time in 843 B.C.E., during the...
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recognize the supremacy of the Assyrians in 639 BC. The distinction equating Parsua with Parsumaš would mean that the referenced Cyrus may have meanwhile taken...
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Median Empire Ecbatana Empire 678 – 549 BC Namar Namar Kingdom 2350 – 750 BC Parsua Tribal chiefdom/kingdom 860 – 600 BC Persis Tribal kingdom 10th century...
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