Garmekan

This article is about the Sasanian province. For the region, see Beth Garmai.

Garmekan Garmekān
Province of the Sasanian Empire
293/4–before 410
Map of Garmekan
Capital	Karka d-Beth Slokh
Historical era	Late Antiquity
• Established	293/4
• Merged with Nodshiragan	before 410
Preceded by Succeeded by Adiabene Garamig ud Nodardashiragan
Today part of	Iraq

Garmekan or Garamig was an early Sasanian province located in northern Mesopotamia, between the Little Zab and Diyala river.[1] Its capital was Karka d-Beth Slokh.[2] The province is omitted in Shapur I's (r. 240–270) list of provinces in the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht inscription, which indicates that it was part of Nodshiragan during that period.[2] Garmekan is first attested as a Sasanian province in the Paikuli inscription of Narseh (r. 271–293) in 293/4,[3] who describes how the aristocracy of Asoristan, Garmekan, and Shahrazur met him at Hayan i Nikatra in order to convince him to become the new king.[4] Before the Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon in 410, Garmekan had been merged with the province of Nodshiragan, becoming known as Garamig ud Nodardashiragan.[3]

References

1. Marciak 2017, p. 261.
2. Shavarebi 2019, p. 368.
3. Marciak 2017, p. 411.
4. Morony 1989, p. 187.

Sources

• Marciak, Michał (2017). Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene: Three Regna Minora of Northern Mesopotamia Between East and West. BRILL. ISBN 9789004350724.
• Morony, Michael G. (1989). "Bēṯ Garmē". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. IV, Fasc. 2. p. 187.
• Morony, Michael G. (2005) [1984]. Iraq After The Muslim Conquest. Gorgias Press LLC. ISBN 978-1-59333-315-7.^[permanent dead link‍]
• Shavarebi, Ehsan (2019). "Sasanians, Arsacids, Aramaeans: Ibn al-Kalbī's Account of Ardashīr's Western Campaign (2019)": 363–379. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)