Parsua (earlier Parsuash, Parsumash) was an ancient tribal kingdom/chiefdom (860-600 BC) located between Zamua (formerly: Lullubi) and Ellipi, in central...

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...

help of the Urartians. Sargon took Izirtu, and stationed troops in Parsua (Parsua was distinct from Parsumash located further southeast in what is today...

empire called themselves the Parsa and their constantly shifting territory Parsua, for the most part localized around Persis. The name "Persia" is a Greek...

inscription refers to another king, Jehoram of Israel. Its reference to Parsua is also the first known reference to the Persians. Tribute offerings are...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...