Pre-Islamic Bahrain - Parthian and Sassanid

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Pre-Islamic Bahrain - Parthian and Sassanid
From the 3rd century BC to arrival of Islam in the 7th century AD, Bahrain was controlled by two other Iranian dynasties of the Parthians and Sassanids.
By about 250 BC, the Seleucids lost their territories to Parthians, an Iranian tribe from Central Asia. The Parthian dynasty brought the Persian Gulf under their control and extended their influence as far as Oman. Because they needed to control the Persian Gulf trade route, the Parthians established garrisons in the southern coast of Persian Gulf.[1]
In the 3rd century AD, the Sassanids succeeded the Parthians and held the area until the rise of Islam four centuries later.[1]
Ardashir, the first ruler of the Iranian Sassanians dynasty marched down the Persian Gulf to Oman and Bahrain and defeated Sanatruq [2] (or Satiran), probably the Parthian governor of Bahrain.[3] He appointed his son Shapur I as governor of Bahrain. Shapur constructed a new city there and named it Batan Ardashir after his father.At this time, Bahrain incorporated the southern Sassanid province covering the Persian Gulf's southern shore plus the archipelago of Bahrain.[3] The southern province of the Sassanids was subdivided into three districts of Haggar (Now al-Hafuf province, Saudi Arabia), Batan Ardashir( Now al-Qatif province, Saudi Arabia), and Mishmahig (Now Bahrain Island) (In Middle-Persian/Pahlavi means "ewe-fish".[4]) which included the Bahrain archipelago that was earlier called Aval.[3] The name, meaning 'ewe-fish' would appear to suggest that the name /Tulos/ is related to Hebrew /ṭāleh/ 'lamb' (Strong's 2924).[5]
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1.Bahrain By Federal Research Division, page 7
2.Robert G. Hoyland, Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze
Age to the Coming of Islam, Routledge 2001p28
3.Conflict and Cooperation: Zoroastrian Subalterns and Muslim Elites in ... By Jamsheed K. Choksy, 1997, page 75
4.Yoma 77a and Rosh Hashbanah, 23a
5.Strong's Hebrew and Aramaic Dictionary of Bible Words

[@saberah]

This is very interesting. This information is not mentioned anywhere in the National Museum of Bahrain or in school books.

[@zeepicks]

Ofcourse! Bahrain history books is all about how Bahrainis became a muslims and the migration of the royal family from Al Zubarah to the country lol

[@masoudkhosravi2822]

phartian and sasanid original knight