Drangiana

Drangiana ( Old Persian: Zranka, "Water Country ") was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire and is today one of the countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. Core area were the Hamun Lake and the Helmandfluss. Thus, the geographical location of the Sistan region of Iran and the western Pakistan, and southwestern Afghanistan corresponds. The earliest mention Drangianas found in the Behistun inscription from the 5/6 However century BC The meaning of the word is uncertain. Many scholars translate it with water country. Georg Morgenstierne however, preferred peaks and thus refers to the mountain Koh -i Khwaja, which dominates the area.

The area was inhabited by an Iranian tribe of the Greeks as Sarangianer (English: Sarangians ) or Drangianer (English: Drangians, Persian Zarangians ) was called and the earth has yielded its ancient Persian name Zaranka. It was under the legendary Kingdom of Ninus.

First it conquered the Medes, after Cyrus II (550 BC). Herodotus, Cyrus the king of Anshan formed a new coalition of his own Persian tribe, the Pasargadae, the Persian tribes of Maraphii and MaSpII, the mighty strains ( of unknown origin ) the Panthialaei, Derusiaei and Germanii as well as the nomadic tribes of the Dahae (also Dai called ), Mardi ( Medes ), Dropici and Sagarti ( Asagarti ). Presumably, these are strains of Drangiana who are close to the Sakas.

Later Darius I. divided the previously rather loosely organized empire into several tax districts. According to Herodotus the Drangianer during the reign of Darius I in the same district were settled as the Utianen, Thamanaeaner, Myci and Sagarti, also deported to the Persian Gulf. Except for the Thamaneaens and Mycis to find these tribes in Central Asia.

The Persian capital of Drangianer was Phrada and like with today's Farah or even with the Achaemenid palace in Dahan -i - Ghulaman (today Zabol ) be identical. 330 BC, the region was conquered by Alexander the Great.

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