Athura was a geographical area within the Persian Achaemenid Empire during the period of 539 BC to 330 BC. Although sometimes regarded as a satrapy, Achaemenid royal inscriptions list it as a dahyu, a concept generally interpreted as meaning either a group of people or both a country and its people, without any administrative implication...
Asuristan was a province of the Sassanid Empire . The territory was taken during the fall of the Parthian Empire. The Sassanians renamed Babylon, to Asuristan.... (Sassanid)
