Metropolitanate of Fars or Pars was an East Syriac metropolitan province of the Church of the East between the sixth and twelfth centuries. It was centered in what is now Fars province, the historic c
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Rishahr or Rev Ardashir was a city on the Persian Gulf in medieval Iran and is currently an archaeological site near Bushehr. It may be identical to the Antiochia-in-Persis of the Seleucid period, but
Fars (East Syriac ecclesiastical province)
…Fars and the islands of the Persian Gulf in the fifth century and probably eleven or more by the end of the Sassanian period. In Fars, the diocese of Rev Ardashir is first mentioned in 420, the dioceses of Ardashir Khurrah (Shiraf), Darabgard, Istakhr and Kazrun (Shapur or Bih Shapur) in 424, and a diocese of…
Rishahr