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Asuristan (Assyria) was a province of the Sassanid Empire (226–651). The territory was taken during the fall of the Parthian Empire. The Sassanians renamed Babylon, to Asuristan. The region was previously known as Mesopotamia and is nowadays known as Iraq. The province for the most part streched from Mosul to Adiabene. While the official religion of the Sassanid empire was Zoroastrians during the third and fourth century, Jews and Christians outnumbered them in the Asuristan province. Its inhabitants were mostly working as agricultural.