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Parthia - Origins | | Parthia - Origins: Encyclopedia II - Parthia - Origins | | The Parthians were members of the Parni tribe, a nomadic people of Iranian origin, who spoke an Iranian language and entered the Iranian plateau from Central Asia. They were consummate horsemen, known for the 'Parthian shot': turning backwards at full gallop to loose an arrow directly to the rear. Later, at the height of their power, Parthian influence reached as far as Ubar in Arabia, the nexus of the frankincense trade route, where Parthian-inspired ceramics have been found. The power of the early Parthian empire seems to have been overestimated by some ancient historians, w ...
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Parthia - Origins
- See also: Seven Parthian clans
The Parthians were members of the Parni tribe, a nomadic people of Iranian origin, who spoke an Iranian language and entered the Iranian plateau from Central Asia. They were consummate horsemen, known for the 'Parthian shot': turning backwards at full gallop to loose an arrow directly to the rear. Later, at the height of their power, Parthian influence reached as far as Ubar in Arabia, the nexus of the frankincense trade route, where Parthian-inspired ceramics have been found. The power of the early Parthian empire seems to have been overestimated by some ancient historians, who could not clearly separate the powerful later empire from its more humble obscure origins.
Little is known of the Parthians; their own literature, which included such luminaries as Apollodorus of Artemita and Isidore of Charax, did not survive and consequently their written history must be pieced together from the biased depictions of the Romans, Greeks, Jews and Chinese. Even their own name for themselves is debatable due to a lack of domestic records; the best guess is that they called their empire Iranshahr (Persian for 'Iranian city'). Their strength was based on a combination of the guerilla warfare of a mounted nomadic tribe and organisational skills sufficient to build and administer a vast empire, even though it never matched in power the Persian empires that preceded and followed it. Vassal kingdoms seem to have made up a large part of their territory (see Tigranes II of Armenia), and Hellenistic cities enjoyed a certain autonomy; their craftsmen received employment by some Parthians.
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