# Paradan > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Paradan > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Paradan.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradan > Source revision: 1194888256 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Province of the Sasanian Empire}} {{Infobox country | conventional_long_name = Paradan | common_name = Paradan | era = [Antiquity](/source/ancient_history) | status = | year_start = 125 | year_end = c.650 CE | p1 = Indo-Parthians | flag_p1 = | s1 = Rashidun Caliphate | flag_s1 = | image_coat = | coa_size = 250px | symbol_type =
| image_map = Map of Paradan.png | map_width = 300 | image_map_caption = Core territory and possible maximum extent of Paradan. | capital = | common_languages = | religion = | government_type = | title_leader = | today = [Afghanistan](/source/Afghanistan)
[Pakistan](/source/Pakistan) }} '''Paradan''' or '''Paratan''' was a province of the [Paratarajas](/source/Paratarajas) and the [Sasanian Empire](/source/Sasanian_Empire). It was constituted from the present-day [Balochistan](/source/Balochistan) region, which is divided between [Iran](/source/Iran), [Pakistan](/source/Pakistan) and [Afghanistan](/source/Afghanistan). ==Paratarajas== thumb|left|Early Parataraja coinage of Paradan (c.125-150 CE). {{main|Paratarajas}} Evidence from coins shows that it was located in what is now north-eastern Balochistan, centered around the town of [Loralai](/source/Loralai) (now in [Pakistan](/source/Pakistan)), further east than traditionally thought.Tandon 2012 Thus it was located roughly where the map places the province of [Turan](/source/Turan_(Sasanian_province)).{{cite journal |last1=Tandon |first1=Pankaj |title=The Location and Kings of Paradan |journal=Studia Iranica |year=2012 |volume=41 |page=46 |url=https://www.academia.edu/2477398}} Paradan has been associated with the territory of the historical [Paratarajas](/source/Paratarajas) (125-300 CE).Tandon 2012 ==Sasanian Empire== The province of Paradan is mentioned in [Shapur I's inscription at the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht](/source/Shapur_I's_inscription_at_the_Ka'ba-ye_Zartosht) of 262 CE, one of the many provinces of the [Sasanian Empire](/source/Sasanian_Empire):{{sfn|Gardner|2014|p=57}}{{cite journal |last1=Tandon |year=2012 |title=The Location And Kings Of Paradan |url=https://archive.org/details/Tandon2012TheLocationAndKingsOfParadan/page/n3/mode/2up |journal=Studia Iranica |language=English |issue=41 |page=28}} thumb|left|Parthian version of the Shapur I inscription at Ka'ba-ye Zartosht. {{Quote| "And I ([Shapur I](/source/Shapur_I)) possess the lands: Fars [Persis](/source/Persis), Pahlav ([Parthia](/source/Parthia)) (......) and all of Abarshahr (all the upper (eastern, Parthian) provinces), Kerman ([Kirman](/source/Kerman_Province)), [Sakastan](/source/Sakastan_(Sasanian_province)), [Turgistan](/source/Turgistan), [Makuran](/source/Makuran), Pardan ([Paradene](/source/Paradene)), Hind ([Sind](/source/Hind_(Sasanian_province))) and [Kushanshahr](/source/Kushanshahr) all the way to Pashkibur ([Peshawar](/source/Peshawar)?) and to the borders of [Kashgaria](/source/Kashgar), [Sogdia](/source/Sogdiana) and Chach ([Tashkent](/source/Tashkent)) and of that sea-coast Mazonshahr ([Oman](/source/Oman))." |[Shapur I's inscription at the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht](/source/Shapur_I's_inscription_at_the_Ka'ba-ye_Zartosht) (262 CE), translation by [Josef Wiesehöfer](/source/Josef_Wieseh%C3%B6fer) (1996).The complete paragraph goes:
"And I [Shapur I] possess the lands: Fars [Persis], Pahlav [Parthia], Huzestan [Khuzistan], Meshan [Maishan, Mesene], Asorestan [Mesopotamia], Nod-Ardakhshiragan [Adiabene], Arbayestan [Arabia], Adurbadagan [Atropatene], Armen [Armenia], Virozan [Iberia], Segan [Machelonia], Arran [Albania], Balasagan up to the Caucasus and to the ‘gate of the Alans’ and all of Padishkhvar[gar] [the entire Elburz chain = Tabaristan and Gelan (?)], Mad [Media], Gurgan [Hyrcania], Marv [Margiana], Harey [Aria], and all of Abarshahr [all the upper (= eastern, Parthian) provinces], Kerman [Kirman], Sakastan, Turgistan, Makuran, Pardan [Paradene], Hind [Sind] and Kushanshahr all the way to Pashkibur [Peshawar?] and to the borders of Kashgaria, Sogdia and Chach [Tashkent] and of that sea-coast Mazonshahr [‘Oman’]."
in {{cite book |last1=Wiesehöfer |first1=Josef |author1-link=Josef Wiesehöfer |title=Ancient Persia : from 550 BC to 650 AD |date=1996 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |location=London |isbn=978-1860646751 |page=184}}For a secondary source see {{cite book |last1=Kia |first1=Mehrdad |title=The Persian Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]: A Historical Encyclopedia |date=27 June 2016 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-61069-391-2 |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5BHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA67 |language=en}}For another referenced translation, visible online, see: {{cite book |last1=Frye |first1=Richard Nelson |title=The History of Ancient Iran |date=1984 |publisher=C.H.Beck |isbn=978-3-406-09397-5 |page=371|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0y1jeSqbHLwC&pg=PA371 |language=en}}}} Traditionally, Paradan was held to be further west, in the area of western Balochitan. [[Image:The provinces of Sakastan, Paradan, Turan, Makuran and Hind in the early Sasanian era.svg|thumb|Traditional map of the southeastern provinces of the [Sasanian Empire](/source/Sasanian_Empire), with Paradan to the west.]] ==See also== *[Mazun (Sasanian province)](/source/Mazun_(Sasanian_province)) *[Gedrosia (satrapy)](/source/Gedrosia_(satrapy)) ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Sources== * {{cite book | last = Brunner | first = Christopher | chapter = Geographical and Administrative divisions: Settlements and Economy| title = The Cambridge History of Iran: The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian periods (2) | year = 1983 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location=Cambridge | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hvx9jq_2L3EC&pg=PA747 | isbn = 978-0-521-24693-4| pages=747–778 }} * Tandon, Pankaj. 2012. "The Location and Kings of Paradan" ''Studia Iranica'', 41 pp 25-56. http://people.bu.edu/ptandon/Paradan.pdf {{Sasanian Provinces}} Category:Provinces of the Sasanian Empire {{Asia-hist-stub}} {{Asia-geo-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Paradan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradan) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradan?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.