Las fuentes clásicas y orientales relativas a las fronteras septentrionales del imperio sasánida (224-651)

Abstract

This doctoral dissertation is a study on the relations between Sasanian Iran, named after the ruling dynasty in Persia from the first quarter of the 3rd century AD to the second half of the 7th century AD, and the Central Eurasian steppe nomads (Iranian and / or Turkic speaking). These relations between Sasanians and steppe nomads were not always peaceful, considering that there was much warfare between them; although, there were also times of peace, in which alliances and commerce flourished. This dissertation, divided according to the reigns of the different Sasanian kings, focuses on the Northern frontiers of the Persian Empire, with special interest in the main spots of nomad penetration: the Caucasian regions (nowadays, Northwest Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and South Russia) and the steppes of Central Asia (Northeast Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and North Pakistan), all that according to the information collected by contemporary and later sources from the beginning of the 3rd century AD up to the 16th century AD. These sources are in different languages and, even though Classical (Greek and Latin) sources are the majority of them, there is also evidence in Middle Persian, Arab, Armenian, Bactrian, Chinese, Ethiopian, Georgian, Old Turkic, Persian, Syriac and Sogdian, among others. So, this thesis has gathered a corpus of original texts with translation and a realia commentary, destined to be used as an instrumentum philologicum for historical-archaeological research.

Date of Award	28 Sept 2017
Original language	Spanish
Supervisor	Agustin Alemany Vilamajo (Director)