Diferencia entre revisiones de «Atropatene»

'''Atropatene''' o '''Media Atropatene''' (originalmente conocido como ''Atropatkan'' y ''Atorpatkan'') fue un antiguo reino de la antigüedad clásica establecido y gobernado por dinastías locales [[pueblos iranios|iranias]], en primer lugar con [[Darío I|Darío el Grande]] de [[Persia]] y más tarde por [[Alejandro Magno]]<ref>Susan M. Sherwin-White, Amélie Kuhrt, "From Samarkhand to Sardis: a new approach to the Seleucid Empire", University of California Press, 1993. pg 78:"The independence of the area Media Atropatene, named after Atropates, satrap of Media under Darius and Alexander (now Azerbaijan), under local Iranian dynasts, was pre-Selecuid".</ref> a partir del {{AC|siglo IV}}, e incluye el territorio de lo que hoy es el [[Azerbaiyán iraní]]<ref>{{Citation |title=Ancient Egypt's warfare: a survey of armed conflict in the chronology of ancient Egypt, 1600 BC-30 BC |last=Benson |first=Douglas S. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1995 |publisher=D. S. Benson |location= |isbn= |page= |pages= |url=http://books.google.com/?id=OMRyAAAAMAAJ&q=Atropatena+Iranian+Azerbaijan&dq=Atropatena+Iranian+Azerbaijan&cd=3 |accessdate=}}</ref>y el [[Kurdistán iraní]].<ref>Media Atropatene, Compiled by S.E. Kroll, 1994 in Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Map-by-map Directory, Richard J. A. Talbert, [[Princeton University Press]], 2000. Volume 2. pg 1292: "The map approximates the region called by Greek authors Media Atropatene after Atropates, the satrap of Alexander who governed there and later became an independent ruler. The modern name Azerbaijan derives from Atropatene. Originally, Media Atropatene was the northern part of greater Media. To the north, it was separated from Armenia by the River Araxes. To the east, it extended as far as the mountains along the Caspian Sea, and to the west as far as Lake Urmia (ancient Matiane Limne) and the mountains of present-day Kurdistan. The River Amardos may have been the southern border.". pg 1293: "Another important site (but not as large as the places just noted) is the famous fire-temple Adur Gushnasp, situated high in the Kurdish mountains at the holy lake of Takht-i Suleiman, and never mentioned by any ancient western source. It "[http://books.google.com/books?id=x_FHmc_E2uQC&pg=PA1293&dq=Another+important+site+(but+not+as+large+as+the+places+just+noted)+is+the+famous+fire-temple+Adur&cd=1#v=onepage&q=Another%20important%20site%20(but%20not%20as%20large%20as%20the%20places%20just%20noted)%20is%20the%20famous%20fire-temple%20Adur&f=false].</ref>Su capital era Ganzak. ''Atropatene'' también fue el antepasado nominal del nombre de ''[[Azerbaiyán (desambiguación)|Azarbaijan]]''.<ref name=Yarshater1983 >{{citation |last=Yarshater |first=Ehsan |year=1983 |title=The Cambridge history of Iran |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-521-20092-9 |page=1408 |quote=Atropatene see Azarbaijan}}</ref><ref>Houtsma, M. T.; Arnold, T. W.; Wensinck, A. J. (1993). [http://books.google.de/books?id=GEl6N2tQeawC&pg=PA134&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936], 134, BRILL. ISBN 90-04-09796-1, ISBN 978-90-04-09796-4.</ref>