Nisaean plain
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The Nisaean plain (also spelled Nesaean; Greek: Nḗsaion pedíon)[a] was a fertile plain in Media, a historic region in Iran.[1][2] It was best known for being the home of the esteemed Nisaean horse.[1][3] The plain may be identical with the Nisaya district mentioned in the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great (r. 522–486 BC).[1] However, Rüdiger Schmitt notes that this cannot be strictly proven.[1] The name of the plain possibly survived into the Medieval era, as Yaqut al-Hamawi, writing in the 13th century, mentioned a town in Hamadan (ancient Ecbatana) with the name Nisa.[1] The city of Nahavand is located on the Nisaean plain.[2]
Alireza Shapur Shahbazi in Iranica identifies the plain (Nīšāya, Nisāya, Nesā) with the site of Harunabad (Shahabad, modern-day Eslamabad-e Gharb in Kermanshah Province), on the road between Hulwan and Hamadan.[4]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ Old Iranian *i was ostensibly rendered as ē in the most renowned Greek Herodotean manuscripts.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Schmitt 2002.
- 1 2 Sherwin-White & Wiesehöfer 2012.
- ↑ "The role of Nisaean horse in horse breeding in the Ancient World on ResearchGate".
- ↑ Shahbazi, Alireza Shapur. "ASB i. In Pre-Islamic Iran". Encyclopaedia Iranica.
Sources
[edit]- Schmitt, Rüdiger (2002). "Nisāya". Encyclopaedia Iranica.
- Sherwin-White, Susan Mary; Wiesehöfer, Josef (2012). "Laodicea-Nihavend". In Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony; Eidinow, Esther (eds.). The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.). Oxford University Press.
