Sasanian Persian forces

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imperial army military forces

Sasanian Persian forces were the imperial armies of the Sasanian Empire, renowned for their heavily armored cavalry and central role in defending and expanding one of late antiquity’s most powerful Middle Eastern states.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Sasanian army	1
Sasanian cavalry	1

Statements (78)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	imperial army ⓘ military forces ⓘ
activeInPeriod	3rd century to 7th century CE ⓘ
commandedBy	Shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
commandStructureIncluded	general ⓘ marzban ⓘ spahbed ⓘ
engagedInConflictWith	Arabs NERFINISHED ⓘ Byzantine Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Hephthalites NERFINISHED ⓘ Kidarites NERFINISHED ⓘ Rashidun Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkic peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ
financedBy	imperial taxation system ⓘ
hadEliteUnit	Savaran cataphracts NERFINISHED ⓘ asvaran cavalry NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Byzantine military organization ⓘ early Islamic military systems ⓘ
languageOfCommand	Middle Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ
maintainedFortifications	frontier walls and fortresses ⓘ
notableBattle	Battle of Callinicum (531) NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Dara (530) NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Edessa (260) NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Nahavand (642) NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Nineveh (627) NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Nisibis (3rd–4th centuries) NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Qadisiyyah (636) NERFINISHED ⓘ Siege of Amida (359) NERFINISHED ⓘ Siege of Antioch (540) NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableCommander	Bahram Chobin NERFINISHED ⓘ Khosrow I NERFINISHED ⓘ Khosrow II NERFINISHED ⓘ Peroz I NERFINISHED ⓘ Rostam Farrokhzad NERFINISHED ⓘ Shapur I NERFINISHED ⓘ Shapur II NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFrontierSystem	Derbent fortifications in the Caucasus GENERATED ⓘ Gorgan Wall GENERATED ⓘ
partOf	Sasanian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
predecessor	Parthian military NERFINISHED ⓘ
primaryRegionOfOperation	Arabian Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ Caucasus NERFINISHED ⓘ Central Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Eastern Anatolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Iranian plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ
recruitedFrom	Iranian nobility ⓘ allied tribes ⓘ peasantry ⓘ subject peoples ⓘ
religiousAffiliation	Zoroastrianism NERFINISHED ⓘ
role	defense of imperial frontiers ⓘ imperial expansion ⓘ maintenance of internal order ⓘ
successor	early Islamic Rashidun Caliphate armies ⓘ
usedEquipment	composite bows ⓘ lamellar armor ⓘ lances ⓘ mail armor ⓘ scale armor ⓘ shields ⓘ siege engines ⓘ swords ⓘ
usedPrimaryArm	cataphracts ⓘ clibanarii ⓘ heavy cavalry ⓘ
usedTactic	combined arms warfare ⓘ extensive use of archery ⓘ fortified frontier defense ⓘ heavy cavalry shock charge ⓘ siege warfare ⓘ
usedUnitType	archers ⓘ engineers ⓘ infantry ⓘ light cavalry ⓘ siege troops ⓘ war elephants ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Battle of Qadisiyyah → combatant → Sasanian Persian forces ⓘ

Battle of Nahavand → combatant → Sasanian Persian forces ⓘ

Battle of Singara → hasCombatant → Sasanian Persian forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sasanian army

Battle of Singara → militaryBranchInvolved → Sasanian Persian forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sasanian cavalry