Tapur tribe

Map of Greco-Bactrian Kingdom with Tapuria clearly lying on the south shores of the Caspian sea

Tapur clan was a clan of Scythian people[1] that migrated from Parthyene to central parts of southern territories of Caspian Sea during kingdom of Phraates I[2] when Parthian Empire became strong during Phraates I, he attacked to Amard (another Scythian tribe) and defeated them. Then he forced them to leave southern fringes of Caspian Sea and replaced them with Tapur people. After this event, ancient Tapuria was established.[3]

References

  1. ↑ and to the eastward are the Galactophagi ; and eastward from Tapuris mountains and the scymbi scythae are the Tapurei. ptolemy (6.14.12)
  2. ↑ Ehsan, Yarshater. The Cambridge History of Iran:Seleucid Parthian. p. 766. ISBN 0521246938.
  3. ↑ Rawlinson 1875, p. 36
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