Asuristan (Assyria) was a province of the Sassanid Empire (226–651). The territory was taken during the fall of the Parthian Empire. The Sassanians renamed Babylon, to Asuristan.[1][2] The region was previously known as Mesopotamia and is nowadays known as Iraq.[3] The province for the most part streched from Mosul to Adiabene. [4] While the official religion of the Sassanid empire was Zoroastrianism during the third and fourth century, Jews and Christians outnumbered them in the Asuristan province. [5] Its inhabitants were mostly working as agricultural.[6]
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- ^ http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X(1997)60%3A2%3C349%3ATEOTBT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
- ^ Iran: Sasanian Empire - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- ^ History of Iran: Median Empire
- ^ The Decline of Iranshahr: Irrigation and Environments in the History of the Middle East, By Peter Christensen. Page 291-292
- ^ The Fire, the Star and the Cross: Minority Religions in Medieval and Early Modern Iran, By Aptin Khanbaghi, page 6
- ^ The Cambridge History of Iran edited by W.B. Fischer, Ilya Gershevitch, Ehsan Yarshster
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