For the Sasanian province of the same name, see Adurbadagan.
Atropatene Ātṛpātakāna
c. 323 BC–226 AD
Atropatene as a vassal of Seleucids in 221 BC
Status
Autonomous state, frequently a vassal of the Parthian Empire (148/7 BC–226 AD)
Capital
Ganzak
Religion
Zoroastrianism[1]
Government
Monarchy
King
Historical era
Antiquity
• Established
c. 323 BC
• Disestablished
226 AD
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Macedonian Empire
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Atropatene (Old Persian: Ātṛpātakāna; Ancient Greek: Ἀτροπατηνή), also known as Media Atropatene, was an ancient Iranian kingdom established in c. 323 BC by the Persian satrap Atropates. The kingdom, centered in present-day northern Iran, was ruled by Atropates' descendants until the early 1st-century AD, when the Parthian Arsacid dynasty supplanted them.[2] It was conquered by the Sasanians in 226, and turned into a province governed by a marzban ("margrave").[3] Atropatene was the only Iranian region to remain under Zoroastrian authority from the Achaemenids to the Arab conquest without interruption, aside from being briefly ruled by the Macedonian king Alexander the Great (r. 336–323 BC).
The name of Atropatene was also the nominal ancestor of the name of the historic Azerbaijan region in Iran.[4]
^Boyce & Grenet 1991, p. 71.
^Olbrycht 2014, p. 96; Gregoratti 2017, p. 138; Schippmann 1987, pp. 221–224
^Schippmann 1987, pp. 221–224.
^Yarshater, Ehsan (1983), The Cambridge history of Iran, Cambridge University Press, p. 1408, ISBN 978-0-521-20092-9, Atropatene see Azarbaijan
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