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.
Location of Tapuri, between Amardus and Hyrcania
Medes
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The Medes were an Iron Age Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, they occupied the mounta
Tapuri
…Tapuri or Tapyri (Ancient Greek: Τάπουροι or Τάπυροι or Τάπυρροι) 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. The name…
Artistic representation of a Median man
Excavation from ancient Ecbatana, Hamadan, Iran
The Apadana Palace, 5th century BCE Achaemenid bas-relief shows a Median soldier behind a Persian soldier, in Persepolis, Iran
Stone relief of a Median man