Sistan
Sīstān (
Sistan Media
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 of Tanlismaidates, Parthian governor of Sakastan (ruled circa 80-40 BC), with Rangodeme.
Coinage of Narseh (Narsē). AD 293–303. Sakastan mint.
Map of Sakastan under the Sasanians.
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.
Map of the Safavid dynasty in ca. 1720, with Sistan as one of its major provinces.
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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.