For the village in Fars Province, see Sistan-e Olya. For the village in Gilan Province, see Sustan. For the administrative subdivision of Isfahan Province, see Sistan Rural District.
"Sakastan" redirects here. For the province in the Sasanian Empire, see Sakastan (Sasanian province).
Sakastan Sijistan Sistan
Asbad (windmills) in Sistan, Iran[1]
Map of Sistan (labelled Sakastan) in c. 100 BC.
Sistān (Persian: سیستان), also known as Sakastān (Persian: سَكاستان "the land of the Saka") and Sijistan, is a historical region in present-day south-eastern Iran, south-western Afghanistan and extending across the borders of south-western Pakistan.[2] Mostly corresponding to the then Achaemenid region of Drangiana and extending southwards of the Helmand River not far off from the city of Alexandria in Arachosia (present day Kandahar).[3][4] Largely desert, the region is bisected by the Helmand River, the largest river in Afghanistan, which empties into the Hamun Lake that forms part of the border between Iran and Afghanistan.
^UNESCO. Asbads (windmill) of Iran.
^Classen, Albrecht (2010-11-29). Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms – Methods – Trends. Walter de Gruyter. p. 6. ISBN 978-3-11-021558-8.
^Ghulam Rahman Amiri (2020-11-01). The Helmand Baluch A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan. Berghahn Books. p. 7. ISBN 9781800730427.
^N. Rüdiger Schmitt. [1]. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Originally Published: December 15, 1995.
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