In this vicinity was situated, at the time of the Christian era, the Parthian city of Spasini-Charax, which was succeeded by Bahman Ardashir (Bamishir) under the Sassanians, and by Moharzi under the Arabs.
Persian tradition (in Firdousi) makes Princess Homai the daughter and wife of Bahman Ardashir, i.e.
Bahman had married a Jewess (i.
688) calls Esther the mother of Bahman, and, like Firdousi, gives to Homai the name of Shahrazad.