Parthia

Summary

Parthia is a historical region^[1]. Parthia ranks in the top 7% of historical_region entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (591 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Parthia's instance of is recorded as historical region^[3].
• Parthia's instance of is recorded as historical country^[4].
• Parthia's locator map image is recorded as Parthia circa 200 BCE.jpg^[5].
• Parthia's Commons category is recorded as Parthia^[6].
• Parthia's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 33.09361111, 'lon': 44.58083333}^[7].
• Parthia's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/066pc^[8].
• Parthia's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ge813190^[9].
• Parthia's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0049148^[10].
• Parthia's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon^[11].
• Parthia's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[12].
• Parthia's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus^[13].
• Parthia's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia^[14].
• Parthia's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[15].
• Parthia's replaced by is recorded as Khorasan^[16].
• Parthia's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000305217^[17].
• Parthia's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Parthia^[18].
• Parthia's Pleiades ID is recorded as 952097^[19].
• Parthia's different from is recorded as Parthia Satrapy^[20].
• Parthia's Trismegistos Geo ID is recorded as 6322^[21].
• Parthia's culture is recorded as Greater Iran^[22].
• Parthia's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2322489^[23].
• Parthia's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i83876^[24].
• Parthia's Krugosvet article is recorded as istoriya/PARFIYA.html^[25].
• Parthia's ToposText place ID is recorded as 370585RPar^[26].
• Parthia's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 09001191-n^[27].

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Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Parthia include Parthian Empire^[28], a historical country^[29], in Parthian Empire^[30], founded in -0247^[31] and Inscriptional Parthian^[32], an abjad^[33], founded in 0200^[34].

Why It Matters

Parthia ranks in the top 7% of historical_region entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (591 views/month).^[2] Parthia has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[35] Parthia is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[36]

Entities named for Parthia include Parthian Empire^[28], a historical country^[29], in Parthian Empire^[30], founded in -0247^[31] and Inscriptional Parthian^[32], an abjad^[33], founded in 0200^[34].