The interest in the Seleucid empire and problems of organizing political space Hellenistic East has recently been due to a methodological turn historiography era. These changes actualized study role Babylonia first Seleucids according narrative epigraphic sources. satrapy appears them as region where career Diadochus founder Seleucus dynasty began after death Alexander Great. It was here that h...


 Sonja Plischke’s Die Seleukiden und Iran is an attempt to study Seleucid empire building in Iran. In view of the fact that indigenous written sources from are practically absent, Plischke decided include Babylonia this work, since cuneiform evidence region fairly abundant. She detects some general tendencies—such as religious policy and wish connect different parts empire—supported by a ...

the seleucid seals and bullae play a significant role in understanding the administration and social structures of this period. due to the limitations in the seleucids sigillographic study, a wide variety of administrative archives of bullae found from important sites such as qumis, susa, babylon, nippur and kadesh are waiting for the researchers to deal with the bullae’s various aspects. apart...

old province sogdiana, comprising two major city states- samarkand and bukhara which had  ancient civilization and brilliant cultural heritage, was the most important province  of transoxian. achaemenids, seleucids, kushaniyan, hayateleh, turks and sasanians rule in this region at a time. at the interval between fall of the sassanid (652 a.d) and conquest of transoxiana by muslim (second half o...

elymais regions include the elevated plains and valleys of bakhtiary mountains in east of karun river and in fact it is the northeast of khozestan province. although the exact determining of the region extend is difficult but during its life the extend has changed in terms of the new conquests of parthians and some more or less important parts of elymais were dominated by small neighboring stat...

there are few iranian early islamic cities like dinevar that attract the attention of classic historians and geographers. its remains are in a vast and prolific plain northwest of sahneh, kermanshah province, and since it was located on the mesopotamian routs it has gotten a unique status. based on the authors’ filed surveys, the dinevar most ancient evidences are related to seleucids (224-651....