This Sassanid relief is located near Salmas, and is believed to depict either Ardashir I or Shapur I.

Salmas or Salamas (Persian: سلماس) is a district in West Azarbaijan Province of Iran. The city's population is comprised mostly of Azeris and Kurds. The district's name comes from the Kurdish language^{[citation needed]}. According to the Arab geographer Al-Muqaddasi, it was a Kurdish town populated by Hadhbani Kurds in the 10th century. [1] Image File history File links Salmas_relief. ... Image File history File links Salmas_relief. ... Sassanid Empire at its greatest extent The Sassanid dynasty (also Sassanian) was the name given to the kings of Persia during the era of the second Persian Empire, from 224 until 651, when the last Sassanid shah, Yazdegerd III, lost a 14-year struggle to drive out the Umayyad Caliphate... Silver coin of Ardashir I with a fire altar on its verso (British Museum London). ... A coin of Shapur I Shapur I, son of Ardashir I, was king of Persia from 241 to 272. ... Persian, (local name: FārsÄ« or PārsÄ«), is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... West Azarbaijan or West Azerbaijan (Persian: آذربایجان ØºØ±Ø¨ÛŒ Ä€zārbāijān-e GharbÄ«; Kurdish: Azerbaycanî Rojawa; Azeri: QÉ™rbi AzÉ™rbaycan) is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. ... The Azerbaijanis[15][16] are an ethnic group mainly found in northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan. ... The Kurds are an ethnic group who consider themselves to be indigenous to a region often referred to as Kurdistan, an area which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. ... The Kurdish language is an Iranian language spoken in the region called Kurdistan, including Kurdish populations in parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. ... Muhammad ibn Ahmad Shams al-Din Al-Muqaddasi (Arabic: محمد بن امحد شمس الدين المقدسي) (also known as Al-Maqdisi) was a notable medieval Arab geographer, author of Ahsan at-Taqasim fi Ma`rifat il-Aqalim (The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions). ...

It was here in March 1918 that the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, Mar Benyamin Shimon XXI, was murdered by the Kurdish leader Simko, also known as 'Agha Ismail'. [2] 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East under His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV is a Christian church that traces its origins to the See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, said to be founded by Saint Thomas the Apostle as well as Saint_Mari and Addai as evidenced in the Doctrine of... Mar Binyamin Shimon XXI Mar Binyamin Shimon XXI (1887 - March, 1918) was a Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. ...

External links

• Salmas, By C.E. Bosworth, Encyclopaedia of Islam.

See also

• Iranian people
• Iranian cities
• Assyrian Church of the East
• Assyrian Church of the East's Holy Synod
• Assyrian people