Zarinaea

Zarina may also refer to: Tsaritsa, Czarina

Zarinaea, also referred to as Zaranya (meaning "the golden") (alternative spelling Zarina) was a Sacae woman, the sister of Cyraedus, and the wife of Marmares, ruler of the Parthians. She was noted for her beauty, wisdom, and her bravery, as Sacae women went into the field with men. When war broke out between the Medians and the Parthians and Sacae, she fought in battle and was wounded.^[1] Ctesias related her story towards the end of the 5th century B.C.E.^[2]

Disambiguation

Zarina, the title character in The Pirate Fairy from Disney, who is seen walking a lot because she saves her Pixie Dust for experiments, as opposed to flight, also bad and rogue, but also reforms.

Zarina Diyas

Zarina Wahab

Zarina Baloch

Zarina Gizikova

Zarina (artist)

References

1. The History of Antiquity, from the German of Professor Max Duncker, by E. Abbott By Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker, 1881, P.302 https://books.google.com/books?id=qIkBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA303&dq=Zarinaea&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LTa9U56pLtiqyATdlIGwCQ&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Zarinaea&f=false
2. Ctesias' 'History of Persia': Tales of the Orient By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, James Robson