![]() ![]() The name of the country and its inhabitants is first attested as Old Persian z-r-k (i.e., Zranka) in the great Bīsotūn inscription of Darius I, apparently the original name. A Parthian drachm of Orodes II with the addition of a contermark with portraiture and the name TANLHC around. The older form is also the root of the name Zaranj, capital of the Afghan Nimruz Province.Ĭoinage of the Sakaurakae ruler Tanlesmos (Sakastan, circa 80-40 BC). ![]() The more ancient Old Persian name of the region, prior to Saka dominance, was zaranka ("waterland"). After the Arab conquest of Iran, the province became known as Sijistan/Sistan. In the Bundahishn, a Zoroastrian scripture written in Pahlavi, the province is called "Seyansih". The Sakas were a Scythian tribe which from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century migrated to the Iranian Plateau and Indus valley, where they carved a kingdom known as the Indo-Scythian Kingdom. Sistan derives its name from Sakastan ("the land of the Saka"). 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 the two countries. ![]() Sistān ( Persian: سیستان), known in ancient times as Sakastān ( Persian: سَكاستان, "the land of the Saka"), is a historical and geographical region in present-day Eastern Iran ( Sistan and Baluchestan Province) and Southern Afghanistan ( Nimruz, Helmand, Kandahar). ![]()
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