Tabarestan

Le Tabarestan ou Tabaristan est une région historique d'Iran. Elle s'étendait du sud et sud-est de la mer Caspienne sur un territoire de 500 km de long sur 70 km de large. Elle correspond aux provinces actuelles de Mazandéran, Gilan, Golestan et au nord de la province Semnan, ainsi qu'une petite région du Turkménistan^[1].

Elle est également connue pour avoir été le lieu de naissance de Tabarî, un historien et exégète (tafsir) perse de confession musulmane sunnite.

Tapuri ou Tapyri^[2] étaient une tribu des Mèdes au sud de la mer Caspienne mentionnée par Ptolémée et Arrien^[3] . Ctesias fait référence au pays de Tapuri entre les deux terres de Cadusii et Hyrcania^[4] .

Le nom et les habitations probables des Tapuri semblent, à différentes périodes de l'histoire, s'être étendus le long d'un vaste espace de pays depuis l'Arménie jusqu'à la rive orientale de l'Oxus. Strabon les place le long des portes de la Caspienne et de Rhagae, en Parthie ou entre les Derbices et Hyrcani ou en compagnie des Amardi et d'autres peuples le long des rives sud de la Caspienne ; dans laquelle dernière vue Curtius, Dionysius et Pline peuvent être considérés comme coïncidant.

Ptolémée en un endroit les compte parmi les tribus de Médie, et en un autre les attribue à Margiana.

Leur nom est écrit avec quelques différences chez différents auteurs; ainsi Τάπουροι et Τάπυροι apparaissent dans Strabon ; Tapuri dans Pline et Curtius ; Τάπυρροι dans Steph. B. sub voce.

Il ne fait aucun doute que l'actuel quartier de Tabarestan tire son nom d'eux.

Enfin, Aelian donne une description particulière des Tapuri qui habitaient en Médie^[3].

Références

↑ (en) « Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I by Inostrantzev » [livre], sur Project Gutenberg (consulté le 12 octobre 2020).
↑ Tapuri. The mountains inland from the coast of Hyrcania are called the “Tapurian mountains” by Arrian, after the people there, settled in the mountains between the Derbices and the Hyrcanii (Str., 11.9.1, 11.11.8). They are spread toward the Caspian Gates and Rhaga in Media (Ptol., 6.2.6).These western Tapuri could have resulted from a tribal division north of the Sarnius/Atrak river—another, perhaps ancestral, group, the Tapurei, is located by Ptolemy (6.14.12) in Scythia. The remainder moved south and east into Margiana (“between the Hyrcani and the Arii”, Str., 11.8.8; Ptol., 6.10.2) along the Ochus/Arius (mod. Tejen/Hari-rud) river into Aria (cf. Polyb., 10.49). The Tapuri on the Caspian could, alternatively, represent a later westward migration along the main east-west highway from Margiana. These Tapuri furnished 1,000 cavalry for the battle of Gaugamela (Curt., 3.2.7), apparently aligned with the Hyrcanii (the “Topeiri,” Arr., An. 3.8.4). Alexander later subdued them (Arr., An. 3.23.1-2; Polyb., 5.44.5; Curt., 6.4.24-25). A separate satrap administered them at the time of Alexander’s arrival, and this official was assigned the Caspian Mardi as well (Arr., An. 3.22.7, 24.3; 4.18.2)., IRANICAONlINE IRAN v. PEOPLES OF IRAN (2) Pre-Islamic
↑ ^{a et b} « Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, illustrated by numerous engravings on wood. William Smith, LLD. London. Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower Street and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1854. ,TAPU´RI », sur www.perseus.tufts.edu (consulté le 4 février 2021)
↑ Of the lands which lie on the sea and of the others which border on these, Ninus subdued Egypt and Phoenicia, then Coele-Syria, Cilicia, Pamphylia, and Lycia, and also Caria, Phrygia, and Lydia; moreover, he brought under his sway the Troad, Phrygia on the Hellespont, Propontis, Bithynia, Cappadocia, and all the barbarian nations who inhabit the shores of the Pontus as far as the Tanais; he also made himself lord of the lands of the Cadusii, Tapyri, Hyrcanii, Drangi, of the Derbici, Carmanii, Choromnaei, and of the Borcanii, and Parthyaei; and he invaded both Persis and Susiana and Caspiana, as it is called, which is entered by exceedingly narrow passes, known for that reason as the Caspian Gates. 4 Many other lesser nations he also brought under his rule, about whom it would be a long task to speak. But since Bactriana was difficult to invade and contained multitudes of warlike men, after much toil and labour in vain he deferred to a later time the war against the Bactriani, and leading his forces back into Assyria selected a place excellently situated for the founding of a great city.. Diodorus Siculus, Library 1-7 (2.2.3)

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[1] (en) « Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I by Inostrantzev » [livre], sur Project Gutenberg (consulté le 12 octobre 2020).

[2] Tapuri. The mountains inland from the coast of Hyrcania are called the “Tapurian mountains” by Arrian, after the people there, settled in the mountains between the Derbices and the Hyrcanii (Str., 11.9.1, 11.11.8). They are spread toward the Caspian Gates and Rhaga in Media (Ptol., 6.2.6).These western Tapuri could have resulted from a tribal division north of the Sarnius/Atrak river—another, perhaps ancestral, group, the Tapurei, is located by Ptolemy (6.14.12) in Scythia. The remainder moved south and east into Margiana (“between the Hyrcani and the Arii”, Str., 11.8.8; Ptol., 6.10.2) along the Ochus/Arius (mod. Tejen/Hari-rud) river into Aria (cf. Polyb., 10.49). The Tapuri on the Caspian could, alternatively, represent a later westward migration along the main east-west highway from Margiana. These Tapuri furnished 1,000 cavalry for the battle of Gaugamela (Curt., 3.2.7), apparently aligned with the Hyrcanii (the “Topeiri,” Arr., An. 3.8.4). Alexander later subdued them (Arr., An. 3.23.1-2; Polyb., 5.44.5; Curt., 6.4.24-25). A separate satrap administered them at the time of Alexander’s arrival, and this official was assigned the Caspian Mardi as well (Arr., An. 3.22.7, 24.3; 4.18.2)., IRANICAONlINE IRAN v. PEOPLES OF IRAN (2) Pre-Islamic

[perseus_1999.04.0064-3] {a et b} « Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, illustrated by numerous engravings on wood. William Smith, LLD. London. Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower Street and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1854. ,TAPU´RI », sur www.perseus.tufts.edu (consulté le 4 février 2021)

[4] Of the lands which lie on the sea and of the others which border on these, Ninus subdued Egypt and Phoenicia, then Coele-Syria, Cilicia, Pamphylia, and Lycia, and also Caria, Phrygia, and Lydia; moreover, he brought under his sway the Troad, Phrygia on the Hellespont, Propontis, Bithynia, Cappadocia, and all the barbarian nations who inhabit the shores of the Pontus as far as the Tanais; he also made himself lord of the lands of the Cadusii, Tapyri, Hyrcanii, Drangi, of the Derbici, Carmanii, Choromnaei, and of the Borcanii, and Parthyaei; and he invaded both Persis and Susiana and Caspiana, as it is called, which is entered by exceedingly narrow passes, known for that reason as the Caspian Gates. 4 Many other lesser nations he also brought under his rule, about whom it would be a long task to speak. But since Bactriana was difficult to invade and contained multitudes of warlike men, after much toil and labour in vain he deferred to a later time the war against the Bactriani, and leading his forces back into Assyria selected a place excellently situated for the founding of a great city.. Diodorus Siculus, Library 1-7 (2.2.3)

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