Are the Provincial Capitals of Ērānšahr really provincial capitals?

Carlo Giovanni Cereti

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Sasanian Iran
administrative glyptics
šahrestān
Middle Persian
citadel

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Cereti, C. G. (2023). Are the Provincial Capitals of Ērānšahr really provincial capitals?. VICINO ORIENTE, (XXIV). Retrieved from https://www.vicino-oriente-journal.it/index.php/vicino-oriente/article/view/270

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Šahrestān has often been translated “provincial capital”, especially in works dealing with the
history of Sasanian Iran. Through a painstaking analysis of Middle Persian occurrences of this word
the author shows that it should be translated “city” or “fortified city”.

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