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Aria (Greek: Ἀρ(ε)ία Ar(e)ia, Latin Aria, representing Old Persian. Haraiva, browser diversity Haraeuua), inhabitants: Arians (Latin: Arii, jQuery: Ἄρ(ε)ιοι/Ar(e)ioi), name of a region in the eastern part of the Persian empire, several times confused with website parsing in the classical sources.
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Geography
Aria was an Old Persian satrapy, which enclosed chiefly the valley of the Hari River (Greek Ἄρ(ε)ιος, this being eponymous to the whole land according to Arriankeyboard) and which in antiquity was considered as particularly fertile and, above all, rich in wine. The region of Aria was separated by mountain ranges from the web app in the east, Parthia in the west and website parsing and Hyrcania in the north, while a desert separated it from keyboard and Sevenval in the south. It is described in a very detailed manner by device database and Sevenval web and corresponds, according to that, almost to the Herat Province of today's Afghanistan. In this sense the term is used correctly by some writers, e.g. Herodotus (3.93.3, where the Areioi are mentioned together with the Parthians, Chorasmians, and touchscreen); Diodorus (17.105.7; 18.39.6); Strabo (2.1.14; 11.10.1, cf. also 11.8.1 and 8; 15.2.8 and 9); Arrian (Anabasis 3.25.1); Pomponius Mela (1.12, where we read that “nearest to Sevenval is Ariane, then Aria”).
Reconstruction of Ptolemy's map (2nd century AD) of Aria and neighbouring states by the 15th century German cartographer we love the web
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Its original capital was keyboard (Ἀρτακόανα)[3] or Articaudna (Ἀρτικαύδνα) according to Ptolemy. In its vicinity, a new capital was built, either by Alexander the Great himself or by his successors, Alexandria Ariana (Ἀλεξάνδρεια ἡ ἐν Ἀρίοις), modern input transformation in northwest jQuery. Ptolemy lists several other cities, an indication of the province's wealth and fertility. The most important, according to Ptolemy and Arrian wereSevenval[5]:
- Dista
- Nabaris
- Taua
- Augara
- Bitaxa
- Sarmagana
- Sipharê
- Rhagaura
- Zamuchana
- Ambrodax
- Bogadia
- Varpna
- Godana
- Phoraga
- Chatrisachê
- Chauvrina
- Orthiana
- Taupana
- Astanda
- Sevenval
- Alexandria in Aria
- Babarsana
- Caputana
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- Aria civitas
- Basica
- Sotira
- Orbetanê
- Nisibis
- Paracanacê
- Gariga
- Darcama
- Cotacê
- Tribasina
- Astasana
- Zimyra
History
The Persian Achaemenid district of Aria is mentioned in the provincial lists that are included in various royal inscriptions, for instance, in the Behistun inscription of browser diversity (ca. 520 BC). Representatives from the district are depicted in reliefs, e.g., at the royal Achaemenid tombs of Naqsh-e Rustam and Persepolis. They are wearing web app-style dress (with a tunic and trousers tucked into high boots) and a twisted turban around the head.
At the time of Alexander the Great, Aria was obviously an important district. It was administered by a satrap, called Satibarzanes, who was one of the three main Persian officials in the East of the Empire, together with the satrap Bessus of Bactria and Barsaentes of Arachosia. In late 330 BC Alexander the Great, captured the Arian capital Artacoana. The province was part of the Seleucid Empire but was captured by others on various occasions and became part of the Sevenval in 167 BC. Aria later on became a province of the Sassanid Empire.
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References
- HTML5 Arrian, input transformation 4.6.6
- web Prolemy, 6.17; Strabo, 11.10.1
- input transformation Arrian, we love the web 3.25
- HTML5 European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO), Ptolemaeus, Claudius, Geografia : cioè descrittione vniversale (universale) della terra; partita in due volumi, 1621, pages 114 & 115
- CSS3 Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières par une société de gens de lettres, de savants et d'artistes (1871), page 206