Garmekan

This article is about the Sasanian province. For the region, see Beth Garmai.

Garmekan Garmekān
Province of the Sasanian Empire
← 293/4–before 410 →
Location of Khuzistan Map of Garmekan
Capital		Karka d-Beth Slokh
Historical era		Late Antiquity
•	Established	293/4
•	Merged with Nodshiragan	before 410
Today part of		Iraq

Garmekan or Garamig was an early Sasanian province located in northern Mesopotamia, between the Little Zab and Diyala river. Its capital was Karka d-Beth Slokh. The province is omitted in Shapur I's (r. 240–270) list of provinces in the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht inscription, which indicates that it was part of Nodshiragan during that period. Garmekan is first attested as a Sasanian province in the Paikuli inscription of Narseh (r. 271–293) in 293/4, who describes how the aristocracy of Asoristan, Garmekan, and Shahrazur met him at Hayan i Nikatra in order to convince him to the become the new king. Before the Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon in 410, Garmekan had been merged with the province of Nodshiragan, becoming known as Garamig ud Nodardashiragan.