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Ganzak (گنزک Ganzak, Γάζακα Gazaka, Latin: Gaza, Gazaca, Ganzaga, Arabic: جانزاك Janzaq, جازنا Jazna, Գանձակ Gandzak), is an ancient town founded in northwestern Iran.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 36 relations: Achaemenid Empire, Adur Gushnasp, Alexander the Great, Arabic, Ardashir I, Artavasdes I of Media Atropatene, Atropatene, Atropates, Bahram Chobin, Battle of the Blarathon, Encyclopædia Iranica, Eustathius of Mtskheta, Farrukh Hormizd, Greater Khorasan, Heraclius, Iran, Isfandyadh, Khosrow II, Lake Urmia, Latin, Leylan, Malekan County, Mary Boyce, Media (region), Median language, Miandoab, Muslim conquest of Persia, Orodes II, Parthian Empire, Persian language, Persians, Rashidun Caliphate, Roman Empire, Sasanian Empire, Shahrbaraz, Vladimir Minorsky.

  2. Achaemenid cities
  3. Atropatene
  4. Parthian cities

Achaemenid Empire

The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.

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Adur Gushnasp

Adur Gushnasp (𐭠𐭲𐭥𐭫𐭩 𐭦𐭩 𐭢𐭱𐭭𐭮𐭯 ʾtwly ZY gšnsp Ādur ī Gušnasp; New Persian: آذرگشسب Āzargušasb) was the name of a Zoroastrian sacred fire of the highest grade (Atash Behram), which served as one of the three most sacred fires of pre-Islamic Iran; the two others being the Adur Farnbag and Adur Burzen-Mihr.

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Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Ardashir I

Ardashir I (𐭠𐭥𐭲𐭧𐭱𐭲𐭥; transl), also known as Ardashir the Unifier (180–242 AD), was the founder of the Persian Sasanian Empire.

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Artavasdes I of Media Atropatene, also known as Artavasdes I of Atropatene (before or about 59 BC – about 20 BC) and Artabazus, was a prince who served as a king of Media Atropatene. Ganzak and Artavasdes I of Media Atropatene are Atropatene.

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Atropatene

Atropatene (Ātṛpātakāna; Pahlavi: Ādurbādagān Ἀτροπατηνή), also known as Media Atropatene, was an ancient Iranian kingdom established in by the Persian satrap Atropates.

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Atropates

Atropates (*Ātr̥pātah and Middle Persian; Ἀτροπάτης; – after 321 BC) was a Persian nobleman who served Darius III, then Alexander the Great, and eventually founded an independent kingdom and dynasty that was named after him. Ganzak and Atropates are Atropatene.

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Bahram Chobin

Bahrām Chōbīn (بهرامچوبین) or Wahrām Chōbēn (Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭), also known by his epithet Mehrbandak ("servant of Mithra"), was a nobleman, general, and political leader of the late Sasanian Empire and briefly its ruler as Bahram VI (r. 590–591).

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Battle of the Blarathon

The Battle of the Blarathon, also known as the Battle of Ganzak, was fought in 591 near Ganzak between a combined Byzantine–Persian force and a Persian army led by the usurper Bahram Chobin.

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Encyclopædia Iranica

Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English-language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times.

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Eustathius of Mtskheta

Eustathius or Eustace of Mtskheta (Evstat'i Mtskhet'eli; ევსტათი მცხეთელი) (died 550) is an Orthodox Christian saint, executed for his apostasy from Zoroastrianism by the Sasanian military authorities in Caucasian Iberia (Kartli, eastern Georgia).

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Farrukh Hormizd

Farrukh Hormizd or Farrokh Hormizd (فرخ‌هرمز), also known as Hormizd V, was an Iranian prince, who was one of the leading figures in Sasanian Iran in the early 7th-century.

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Greater Khorasan

Greater KhorāsānDabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed.

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Heraclius

Heraclius (Hērákleios; – 11 February 641) was Byzantine emperor from 610 to 641.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Isfandyadh

Isfandyadh (Middle Persian: Spandiyār) was an Iranian aristocrat from the Ispahbudhan family, who was the ruler of the Sasanian province of Adurbadagan.

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Khosrow II

Khosrow II (spelled Chosroes II in classical sources; Husrō and Khosrau), commonly known as Khosrow Parviz (New Persian: خسرو پرویز, "Khosrow the Victorious"), is considered to be the last great Sasanian king (shah) of Iran, ruling from 590 to 628, with an interruption of one year.

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Lake Urmia

Lake Urmia is an endorheic salt lake in Iran.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leylan

Leylan (ليلان) is a city in, and the capital of, Leylan District of Malekan County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran.

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Malekan County

Malekan County (شهرستان ملکان) is in East Azerbaijan province, Iran.

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Mary Boyce

Nora Elisabeth Mary Boyce (2 August 1920 – 4 April 2006) was a British scholar of Iranian languages, and an authority on Zoroastrianism.

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Media (Māda, Middle Persian: Mād) is a region of north-western Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Medes.

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Median (also Medean or Medic) was the language of the Medes.

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Miandoab

Miandoab (مياندوآب) is a city in the Central District of Miandoab County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

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Muslim conquest of Persia

The Muslim conquest of Persia, also called the Muslim conquest of Iran, the Arab conquest of Persia, or the Arab conquest of Iran, was a major military campaign undertaken by the Rashidun Caliphate between 632 and 654.

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Orodes II

Orodes II (also spelled Urud II; 𐭅𐭓𐭅𐭃 Wērōd), was King of Kings of the Parthian Empire from 57 BC to 37 BC.

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Parthian Empire

The Parthian Empire, also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political and cultural power centered in ancient Iran from 247 BC to 224 AD.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Persians

The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran.

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Rashidun Caliphate

The Rashidun Caliphate (al-Khilāfah ar-Rāšidah) was the first caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Sasanian Empire

The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.

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Shahrbaraz

Shahrbaraz (also spelled Shahrvaraz or Shahrwaraz; New Persian: شهربراز), was shah (king) of the Sasanian Empire from 27 April 630 to 9 June 630.

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Vladimir Minorsky

Vladimir Fyodorovich Minorsky (Владимир Фёдорович Минорский; – 25 March 1966) was a Russian academic, historian, and scholar of Oriental studies, best known for his contributions to the study of history of Iran and the Iranian peoples such as Persians, Laz people, Lurs, and Kurds.

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See also

Achaemenid cities

Atropatene

Parthian cities

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzak

Also known as Ganzaga, Ganzhak, Gazaca, Gazaka.