Tabaristan
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Tabaristan or Tabarestan was a mountainous region located on the Caspian coast of northern Iran. It corresponded to the present-day province of Mazandaran, which became the predominant name of the are
Coin of Farrukhan the Great (r. 712–728)
Sasanian-style silver half-dirham minted during Khalid ibn Barmak's governorship of Tabaristan, 770/71
Silver gilt dish produced in Tabaristan, 7th or 8th century
Tapuri
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Tapuri or Tapyri were a tribe in the Medes south of the Caspian Sea mentioned by Ptolemy and Arrian. Ctesias refers to the land of Tapuri between the two lands of Cadusii and Hyrcania.
Tabaristan
…to the present-day province of Mazandaran, which became the predominant name of the area from the 11th century onwards. Tabaristan was named after the Tapurians, who had been deported there from Parthia by the Parthian king Phraates I (r. 176–171 BC). At the advent of the Sasanians, the region, along with Gilan…
Location of Tapuri, between Amardus and Hyrcania