Overland Travel Speed in the Arsacid Empire Era (From 1st Century BCE to 3rd Century CE)

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Ordou Reza; ZARRINKOOB ROOZBEH

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Journal: History of Islam and Iran Year:2021 | Volume:31 | Issue:50 (140) Page(s): 17-44

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Overland Travel Speed in the Arsacid Empire Era (From 1st Century BCE to 3rd Century CE)

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Ordou Reza | ZARRINKOOB ROOZBEH | Issue Writer Certificate

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Travel Speed

Arsacids

Overland travel

Couriers

Campaigns

Caravans

Abstract

There are reports considering armies, riders, and Caravans’ movements in historical evidence and classical narratives, including departure and arrival times, or calculable. Also, there are accounts such as itineraries and similar evidence measuring distances between most parts of the Arsacid Empire. These two kinds of information, namely travel time and distance, provide necessary data for calculating riders, armies, and Caravans’ Travel Speed. Gathering this sporadic information and calculating Travel Speed in the Arsacid empire era is the goal of this research to answer the following question: what was the overland Travel Speed in the Arsacid empire period, from 1st century BCE to 3rd century CE? In the meantime, inaccuracies of the data available and the existence of impassable or unsecured routes forbade us from achieving an exact conclusion about the Travel Speed, so an approximate range has been calculated. According to these calculations, the range of Couriers’ Travel Speed was between 80 to 277 km/day, the range of Campaigns Travel Speed was between 10 to 40 km/day, and the range of motion for trade Caravans was between 40 to 60 km/day and for political delegations was 10 to 15 km/day.

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Ordou, Reza, & ZARRINKOOB, ROOZBEH. (2021). Overland Travel Speed in the Arsacid Empire Era (From 1st Century BCE to 3rd Century CE). HISTORY OF ISLAM & IRAN, 31(50 (140) ), 17-44. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/955494/en

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Ordou Reza, ZARRINKOOB ROOZBEH. Overland Travel Speed in the Arsacid Empire Era (From 1st Century BCE to 3rd Century CE). HISTORY OF ISLAM & IRAN[Internet]. 2021;31(50 (140) ):17-44. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/955494/en

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Reza Ordou, and ROOZBEH ZARRINKOOB, “Overland Travel Speed in the Arsacid Empire Era (From 1st Century BCE to 3rd Century CE),” HISTORY OF ISLAM & IRAN, vol. 31, no. 50 (140) , pp. 17–44, 2021, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/955494/en

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