چکیده:
The region of 'Bilad Shapur' was one of the important 'rustaqs' (districts) of 'Kura Qabadkhurra' (Arjan), which was considered one of the important provinces of Fars in the Sasanian and Islamic eras. This region, which became known as 'Bilad Shapur' due to the construction of a city by Shapur I in the Sasanian period, remained an important region with the same name (Bilad Shapur) until the Qajar period. The aim of the present research is to determine the border changes of the Bilad Shapur region and the process of their evolution during the Islamic period. This research has been conducted using a descriptive-analytical method based on library studies and systematic field investigations, and seeks to answer the following question: What changes have occurred in the political and administrative boundaries of the Bilad Shapur region from the early centuries of Islam to the Qajar period? The results show that the location and boundaries of the Bilad Shapur region have always been variable in the studied periods and have been transferred several times between the 'kuras' and provinces of Fars.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Bladshapur in Historical and Geographical Texts The Bladshapur region in the geographical and historical texts remaining from the early to late Islamic centuries has been mentioned with various names, such as Bladsabur (Dinawari, Ibn Hawqal, Estakhri, Ibn Miskawayh, Ibn Kathir), Bla Sabur (Maqdisi), Bladshapur (Ibn Balkhi, Hosseini Qazvini, Baydawi, Banakati, Hamdollah Mostofi, Khondamir, Mostofi Baqfi, Hosseini Monshi, Hosseini Fasai), Bladshabur (Hafez Abru), among others.
(1): Political position of Bladshapur among the kura and provinces of Fars during different periods (Source: Authors) (Refer to the page image) (Refer to the page image) Map 1: Northern part of Kura Arjan Map 2: Location of the Tab River (present-day Marun) between (Bladshapur, Bazrang, Ziz) The border of Fars and Khuzestan and Isfahan which was assigned to Kura Shapur Khura (Source: Gaube, 233; with modifications by the authors) (Source: Gaube, 7; with modifications by the authors) (Refer to the page image) Map 3: Location of the Bladshapur region based on the words of Estakhri and Ibn Balhi (Source: Gaube, 18; with modifications by the authors) Geographers of the early and middle Islamic centuries located Sardan between Khuzestan and Fars and towards Isfahan (Estakhri, 135; Ibn Hauqal, 287/2; Yaqut, 210/3), and later writers such as Hamdallah Mustawfi (127), Hafiz Abru (136/2) and Mustawfi Bafqi (312) also mentioned the location of the Bladshapur region between Fars and Khuzestan.
Therefore, sources from the early and middle Islamic centuries wrote about the location of the Bladshapur region near the Tab River and, from the north, bordered by Sardan and Isfahan, from the west by Khuzestan, and from the east and south by the regions of Fars and Arjan (Maps 2 and 3).
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