Tajikistan 1 Somonii 2006 - Archer 2006

Tajikistan 1 Somonii 2006 - Archer

Year of Aryan Civilization Series - Archer

				Nominal Value  Metal  Weight      Diametr     Mintage    Year          1 Somonii Copper-Nickel-Zinc     5,24 g   24 mm       100.000     2006
				Ariana (Aryana), the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek was a general geographical term used by some Greek and Roman  authors of the ancient period for a district of wide extent between Central Asia and the Indus River, comprehending the eastern provinces of the Achaemenid Empire that covered the whole country of modern day Afghanistan, and a few parts of India, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.     The third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire was Darius I also called Darius the Great 550–486 BCE. he ruled the empire at its peak, when it included much of West Asia, the Caucasus, parts of the Balkans (Thrace-Macedonia and Paeonia), most of the Black Sea coastal regions, parts of the North Caucasus, Central Asia, as far as the Indus Valley in the far east, and portions of north and northeast Africa including Egypt (Mudrâya), eastern Libya and coastal Sudan.    The ancient archer is the king Darius from the famous seal of Darius the Great. You can find there the king aiming ( the lion )  while his chariot horse is trampling a deceased lion. Darius organized the empire by dividing it into provinces and placing satraps to govern it. He organized a new uniform monetary system, along with making Aramaic the official language of the empire. He also put the empire in better standing by building roads and introducing standard weights and measure. Through these changes the empire was centralized and unified. Darius also worked on construction projects throughout the empire, focusing on Susa, Pasargadae, Persepolis, Babylon and Egypt. Source: own/wikipedia.com