Sistan
Sīstān (
Sistan Media
- SAKAURAKAE (Sakastan). Tanlesmos. Circa 80-40 BC. AR Drachm (21mm, 3.60 gm). A Parthian drachm of Orodes II with addition TANLHC around head left wearing leather cap.jpg
Coinage of the Sakaurakae ruler Tanlesmos (Sakastan, circa 80-40 BC). A Parthian drachm of Orodes II with the addition of a contermark with portraiture and the name TANLHC around.
- Coin Tanlis Mardates with Rangodeme.jpg
Coin of Tanlismaidates, Parthian governor of Sakastan (ruled circa 80-40 BCE), with Rangodeme.
- Narseh (Narsē). AD 293-303. AR Drachm (26mm, 3.80 g, 3h). Style J, Phase 3. Sakastan mint.jpg
Coinage of Narseh (Narsē). AD 293–303. Sakastan mint.
Map of Sakastan under the Sasanians.
- Arab-Sasanian coin (issue of Ubayd Allah ibn Abi Bakra) struck during the reign of 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan.jpg
Coin issued by Ubayd Allah ibn Abi Bakra, governor of Sijistan, at the time of the fifth Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (647–705 CE). Dated AH 65-86 / 685-705 CE.
- Jomann Imperium Periscum.jpg
Map of Safavid Iran in ca. 1720, with Sistan as one of its major provinces.
Persian: سیستان) is a border region in eastern Iran (Sistan and Baluchestan Province) and southern Afghanistan (Nimroz, Kandahar and Zabul provinces).
Sistan was once the homeland of Sakas, a Scythian tribe of Iranic origin. The Saffarids, one of the early Iranian dynasties of the Islamic era, were first from Sistan.