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(historical) The dynastic name of several Parthian and Armenian kings of the Arsacid dynasty. quotations
Further west, between Bactria and the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, Parthyaea, a vast region corresponding to the northeast of Iran, was invaded by a nomadic population under a chief named Arsaces.
2008, Francois Chamoux, Hellenistic Civilization, page 80