Sasanian Hind | |||||||||||||||
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| 262–484 CE | |||||||||||||||
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:South_Asia_non_political,_with_rivers.jpg) South Asia 350 CE &sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Rectangle_(plain).svg) Approximate location of Sasanian Hind and neighbouring polities in South Asia, circa 350 CE.[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Antiquity | ||||||||||||||
• Established | 262 | ||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 484 CE | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | India Pakistan | ||||||||||||||
Hind (also spelled Hindestan) was the name of a southeastern Sasanian province lying near the Indus River. The boundaries of the province are obscure. The Austrian historian and numismatist Nikolaus Schindel has suggested that the province may have corresponded to the Sindh region, where the Sasanians notably minted unique gold coins of themselves.[2] According to the modern historian C. J. Brunner, the province possibly included—whenever jurisdiction was established—the areas of the Indus River, including the southern part of Punjab.[3]
- ^ Schwartzberg, Joseph E. (1978). A Historical atlas of South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 21, 25. ISBN 0226742210.
- ^ Schindel 2016, p. 127.
- ^ Brunner 2004, pp. 326–336.