The historical geography of Zarang (seestan) in the epochs of history

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

mehdi keykhaei ¹ (عضو هیات علمی گروه باستان شناسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد دزفول [e-mail])
mohamadtaghi fazeli ² (عضو هیات علمی دانشگاه ازاد اسلامی واحد شوشتر [e-mail])

Received: 2017-07-13 Accepted : 2017-10-16 Published : 2017-02-19

Keywords: Keywords:Achaemenid, Seistan, Dahan-i-Gholaman, Zarang,

Abstract :

There are some disagreements between historians about the exact place of Zarang city. Historians have pointed at, at least, three different places: first of all Nad-i-Ali, then Dahan-i- Gholaman, and at last Zahedan-i-Kohne. All these parts are located in the south-eastern part of Iran, in Seistan (later, after the division of Seistan, Nad-i-Ali stayed in the Afghani part of the region).What the evidences show is that this name, Zarang or Zaranj, is still used to name an obscure geographical place, the one that has been either a borough or a region, or sometimes a town or a province. Therefore, it seems that the same obscurity has been about the exact location of Zarang, even in historical epochs. The research in hand tries to define the exact south-eastern Satrapi position of Achaemenid era according to the written documents and archeological evidences, and by means of which to show the transitions of Seistan name in the old geographical and written historical texts.   Keywords:Achaemenid, Seistan, Dahan-i-Gholaman, Zarang