Sagartians

The Sagartier ( Asagartiya, Old Persian: Aš - ša -kar -ti -ia, Assyrian: Kursa -ga -ar- ta -aa, Greek: Σαγαρτιοι ) were an ancient Iranian tribe, who inhabited the Iranian highlands. Your exact area of ​​settlement is unknown, but they were probably neighbors of the Parthians in the northeast of Iran or the current Sistan.

According to Herodotus, they were with the Persians ( Iranians southwestern ) related, but they have entered into with the Medes ( northwestern Iran ) also a political union. Claudius Ptolemy placed it claims that there is a peninsula called Sagartia on the Caspian Sea in the media during Stephanos of Byzantium. They were nomadic herdsmen and their main weapon was the lasso.

It is unclear whether they are related to the Zikirti, mentioned by Sargon II as residents of the northern Zagros in the late 8th century BC. You Arbela district was awarded by the Median king Cyaxares II as a reward for their help in the conquest of Nineveh.

According to Herodotus, the Sagartier belonged to the satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire XIV. A sagartische delegation can be seen under the tribute bearer on the Apadanarelief in Persepolis.