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Sassanian army
Military leader
Eran-spahbed
Political leader
Sasanian king of kings
Dates of operation
224–651
Allegiance
Sasanian Empire
Active regions
Asia Minor, Levant, North Africa, Caucasus, Khorasan, Transoxiana, Balkans, Mesopotamia, Arabian Peninsula
Romans, Eastern Romans, Huns, Rashidun Caliphate, Hephthalites, Kushans, Khazars, Western Turkic Khaganate, nomadic Arabs, Aksumites, and others
Standard
Derafsh Kaviani
Military of the Sasanian Empire
Armed forces and units
Cataphract
Clibanarii
Aswaran
Grivpanvar
War elephants
Paygan
Immortals
Pushtigban
Sarmatians
Daylamites
Sogdian warriors
Gond-i Shahanshah
Darigan
Stor Bezashk
Navy
Ranks
Spahbed
Aspbed
Paygosban
Marzban, Kanarang
Masmughan
Pushtigban Salar
Eran anbaraghbad
Argbed
Hazarbed
Paygan-salar
Savaran Sardar
Gond Salar
Darigbed
Navbed
Defense lines
Wall of the Arabs
Gawri Wall
Great Wall of Gorgan
Wall of Tammisha
Derbent Wall
Darial
Conflicts
Romans
Arabian tribes
Hephthalites
Turks
Ethiopians
Muslim Arabs
Revolts and civil wars
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The Sasanian army was the primary military body of the Sasanian armed forces, serving alongside the Sasanian navy. The birth of the army dates back to the rise of Ardashir I (r. 224–241), the founder of the Sasanian Empire, to the throne. Ardashir aimed at the revival of the Persian Empire, and to further this aim, he reformed the military by forming a standing army which was under his personal command and whose officers were separate from satraps, local princes and nobility. He restored the Achaemenid military organizations, retained the Parthian cavalry model, and employed new types of armour and siege warfare techniques. This was the beginning for a military system which served him and his successors for over 400 years, during which the Sasanian Empire was, along with the Roman Empire and later the East Roman Empire, one of the two superpowers of Late Antiquity in Western Eurasia. The Sasanian army protected Eranshahr ("the realm of Iran") from the East against the incursions of central Asiatic nomads like the Hephthalites and Turks, while in the west it was engaged in a recurrent struggle against the Roman Empire.[2]
^Farrokh, Kaveh; Maksymiuk, Katarzyna; Garcia, Javier Sanchez (2018). The Siege of Amida (359 CE). Archeobooks. p. 31. ISBN 978-83-7051-887-5.
^The silk road: a journey from the High Pamirs and Ili through Sinkiang and Kansu, p. 53
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