Abarsas

Map of the Sasanian province of Pars.

Abarsas was a ancient district in present-day southern Iran. It is first mentioned in the early 3rd-century as part of the fief of the Parthian dynast Mihrak. In 222, his fief was conquered by the Sasanian king Ardashir I (r. 224-242), who two years later had it incorporated into the administrative division of Ardashir-Khwarrah.

Sources

• Al-Tabari, Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir (1985–2007). Ehsan Yar-Shater, ed. The History of Al-Ṭabarī. 40 vols. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
• Miri, Negin (2009). Historical Geography of Fars during the Sasanian Period (PDF). Sasanika (University of Sydney). pp. 1–65.
• Pourshariati, Parvaneh (2008). Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-645-3.