3rd-century disestablishments

Atropatene (; ; ), also known as Atropatia or Atropatian Media (; ), was an ancient Iranian kingdom established in by the Persian satrap Atropates (). The kingdom, mostly centered around the present-day Azerbaijan region in northwestern Iran, was ruled by Atropates' descendants until the early 1st-century AD, when the Parthian Arsacid dynasty supplanted them. It was conquered by the Sasanians in 226, and turned into a province governed by a marzban ("margrave"). Atropatene was the only Iranian region to remain under Zoroastrian authority from the Achaemenids to the Arab conquest without interr

archaeological culture

high-prestige form of the Latin language in the Roman Republic and Empire

Province of the Roman Empire (103-3rd century)

extinct Semitic language

pre-Columbian archaeological culture/area in the coastal Veracruz region of Mexico, ca. 300BCE&ndash

Greco-Bactrian archaeological site

Indian dynasty (1st century BCE–3rd century CE)