Atropatene o Media Atropatene (orixinalmente conocíu como Atropatkan y Atorpatkan) foi un antiguu reinu de l'antigüedá clásica establecíu y gobernáu por dinastíes locales iranies, en primer llugar con Darío'l Grande de Persia y más tarde por Alexandru Magnu[1] a partir del sieglu IV e.C., ya inclúi el territoriu de lo que güei ye l'Azerbaixán iranín[2]y el Curdistán iranín.[3]La so capital yera Ganzak. Atropatene tamién foi l'antepasáu nominal del nome de Azarbaijan.[4][5]
Mientres l'Imperiu aqueménida quedó integráu nes satrapíes de Matiana (XVIII) y Caspiana (XI).
- ↑ Susan M. Sherwin-White, Amélie Kuhrt, "From Samarkhand to Sardis: a new approach to the Seleucid Empire", University of California Press, 1993. pg 78:"The independence of the area Media Atropatene, named after Atropates, satrap of Media under Darius and Alexander (now Azerbaijan), under local Iranian dynasts, was pre-Selecuid".
- ↑ Benson, Douglas S., Ancient Egypt's warfare: a survey of armed conflict in the chronology of ancient Egypt, 1600 BC-30 BC, D. S. Benson, https://books.google.com/?id=OMRyAAAAMAAJ&q=Atropatena+Iranian+Azerbaijan&dq=Atropatena+Iranian+Azerbaijan&cd=3
- ↑ Media Atropatene, Compiled by S.Y. Kroll, 1994 in Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Map-by-map Directory, Richard J. A. Talbert, Princeton University Press, 2000. Volume 2. pg 1292: "The map approximates the region called by Greek authors Media Atropatene after Atropates, the satrap of Alexander who governed there and later became an independent ruler. The modern name Azerbaijan derives from Atropatene. Originally, Media Atropatene was the northern part of greater Media. To the north, it was separated from Armenia by the River Araxes. To the east, it extended as far as the mountains along the Caspian Sea, and to the west as far as Lake Urmia (ancient Matiane Limne) and the mountains of present-day Kurdistan. The River Amardos may have been the southern border.". pg 1293: "Another important site (but not as large as the places just noted) is the famous fire-temple Adur Gushnasp, situated high in the Kurdish mountains at the holy lake of Takht-i Suleiman, and never mentioned by any ancient western source. It "[1].
- ↑ Yarshater, Ehsan, The Cambridge history of Iran, Cambridge University Press, p. 1408, ISBN 978-0-521-20092-9, «Atropatene see Azarbaijan»
- ↑ Houtsma, M. T.; Arnold, T. W.; Wensinck, A. J. (1993). Y.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, 134, BRILL. ISBN 90-04-09796-1, ISBN 978-90-04-09796-4.