Battle of Nahavand
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The Battle of Nahavand (Arabic: معركة نهاوند Maʿrakah Nahāwand, Persian: نبرد نهاوند Nabard-e Nahâvand), also spelled Nihavand or Nahawand, was fought in 642 between the Rashidun Muslim forces under caliph Umar and Sasanian Persian armies under King Yazdegerd III.[11] Yazdegerd escaped to the Merv area, but was unable to raise another substantial army. It was a victory for the Rashidun Caliphate and the Persians consequently lost the surrounding cities including Spahan (Isfahan).
Battle of Nahavand | |||||||
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Part of the Muslim conquest of Persia | |||||||
Painting of the Nahavand Castle, which was one of the last Sasanian strongholds. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Rashidun Caliphate | Sasanian Empire | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas An-Numan ibn Muqarrin †[2] Tulayha †[3] Amru bin Ma'adi Yakrib †[4] Zubayr ibn al-Awwam[5] |
Piruz Khosrow † Mardanshah † | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
30,000[6] | 50,000-100,000[7] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Heavy[8][9] | Heavy[9][10] |
The former Sassanid provinces, in alliance with Parthian and White Hun nobles, resisted for about a century in the region south of the Caspian Sea, even as the Rashidun Caliphate was replaced by the Umayyads, thus perpetuating the Sassanid court styles, Zoroastrian religion, and Persian language.