Reishahr(Persian:ری شهر) orRev Ardashir(ریو اردشیر) was a city on thePersian Gulfin medievalIranand is currently an archaeological site nearBushehr.It may be identical to the Antiochia-in-Persis of theSeleucidperiod, but was refounded byArdashir I(d.AD224), the first ruler of theSasanian Empire.In theChurch of the East,it was seat of themetropolitan bishopof theprovince of Farsfrom at least 424.[1]The name "Rew-Ardashir" means "Rich is Ardashir".[2]
The city is mentioned by many historians, such asFarhang-i Anandraj,Hamdollah Mostowfi'sNuzhat al-Qulub,Majmal al-tawarikh,andIbn Balkhi'sFarsnameh.In particular, some historians such asYaqut al-Hamawi'sMu'jam Al-Buldanwrite of the city being centered on a pre-Islamic academic center of higher learning where scholars converged to study medicine as well as Indian and Greek sciences.[3]
Dehkhoda dictionarymentions that the city was eventually deserted and its inhabitants moved to Bushehr.
Notes
edit- ^Potts 2018.
- ^Russell 2004,p. 38.
- ^Tārīkh-i ʻulūm va adabīyāt-i Īrānī (تاریخ علوم و ادبیات ایرانی). Safa, Ẕabīḥ Allāh (ذبیح الله صفا).Perry–Castañeda Library.OCLC number 6899380 1969.
Bibliography
edit- Potts, Daniel (2018). "Rev-Ardashir (Rishahr)". In Nicholson, Oliver (ed.).The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity,Volume 2: J–Z.Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 1284.ISBN978-0-19-881625-6.
- Russell, James R. (2004).Armenian and Iranian studies.Harvard Armenian Texts and Studies. Vol. 9.Harvard University Press.ISBN978-0935411195.
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