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The Greek geographer Strabo mentions islands in Persian Gulf named Tyre and Arad (Muharraq) and the local legend that they are the metropoleis of Phoenicians.[5][6] Herodotus also reports the Tyrian tradition that Phoenicians originated in the Persian Gulf, and theory that the same pair of cities Tyros/Tylos and Arad in both Phoenicia and Persian Gulf may suggest colonization from one way or another has been much discussed.[7][8][9] However, there is little evidence of occupation at all in Bahrain during the time when such migration had supposedly taken place.[10]
It is not known whether Bahrain was part of the
With the waning of
In the third century AD, the Sassanids succeeded the Parthians as the suzerain of Mesene.
By the fifth century Bahrain was a centre for
References
- ^ Curtis E. Larsen, Life and Land Use on the Bahrain Islands: The Geoarcheology of an Ancient Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), p.50.
- ^ a b Jean-Francois Salles, in Traces of Paradise: The Archaeology of Bahrain, 2500BC-300AD, ed. Michael Rice and Harriet Crawford (I. B. Tauris, 2002), p.132.
- ^ Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh, Security and Territoriality in the Persian Gulf: A Maritime Political Geography (London: Routledge), p. 119.
- ^ A. H. L. Heeren, Historical Researches Into the Politics, Intercourse, and Trade of the Principal Nations of Antiquity (London: Henry Bohn, 1854), p.38, 441.
- ^ Tsirkin, Ju. B. "Canaan. Phoenicia. Sidon" (PDF). Aula Orientalis (16): 274.
- ^ Strabo, Geography, XVI, 3 and 4
- ^ R. A. Donkin. Beyond Price: Pearls and Pearl-fishing : Origins to the Age of Discoveries, Volume 224. p. 48.
- ^ Bloggs, G. W. (1986). "Tyre and Tylos: Bahrain in the Graeco-Roman World". In Rice, Michael (ed.). Bahrain through the Ages: The Archaeology. Routledge. p. 401.
- ^ Rice, Michael (1994). The Archaeology of the Arabian Gulf. Routledge. p. 20.
- ^ Rice, ibid, p.21.
- ^ Ian Morris, Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), p.184.
- ^ Potts, D.T., in: Coinage of the Caravan Kingdoms: Studies in Ancient Arabian Monetization, ed. Martin Huth and Peter G. van Alfen (New York: American Numismatic Society, 2010), p.36.
- ^ W. B. Fisher et al., Cambridge History of Iran (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968), p.40.
- ^ IKEO 147/427 - English translation.
- ^ PAT 1374 English translation
- ^ "Maysan," in Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., vol. 6, ed. Bosworth et al. (Brill, 1991), p.918.
- ^ Jamsheed Choksy, Conflict and Cooperation: Zoroastrian Subalterns and Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society, p.75.