Valash
Sign in to saveValash (Middle Persian: Wardākhsh/Walākhsh, ), was an Iranian prince from the House of Karen, who later became the ruler of Tabaristan in 665.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sasanian Empire
- Place of death
- Tabaristan
- Occupation
- aristocrat
- Family
- House of Karen
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- date of death
- 0673-01-01
- relative
- Adhar Valash
- manner of death
- homicide
- cause of death
- killing
- killed by
- Surkhab I
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Valash (Middle Persian: Wardākhsh/Walākhsh, ), was an Iranian prince from the House of Karen, who later became the ruler of Tabaristan in 665.
He was the grandson of the nobleman Adhar Valash, and thus a descendant of Sukhra, a prominent Iranian nobleman who controlled much of the affairs of the Sasanian Empire. In 665, Valash murdered Farrukhzad who was the ruler of Tabaristan, and then conquered his domains, thus becoming the sole ruler of Tabaristan. Farrukhzad's son, Surkhab I, then fled to a Bavand stronghold in Mazandaran to avoid Valash. In 673, Surkhab avenged his father by killing Valash, and then reconquered Tabaristan from Valash.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Valash” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.