Աքեմենյան կառավարման կարգերի ժառանգորդները

Abstract

The administration orders and structures of the Parthian and Sasanian powers are almost exactly repeating the models of Achaemenid governance. Various evidence and facts have been preserved about that, especially about the Sasanian power. According to them, this power was divided into five administrative-territorial units with “Center + 4 peripheral regions” principle. This structure corresponded to the Sasanian system of territorial administration, which had the “king of kings + 4 viceroys/spahbeds” model. The prototypes of such administration systems with the “1 + 4” model are known from Elam and Sumer. The territorial structure and administration system of Greater Armenia had the same model.