Firuz son of Yazdgard III

فيروز بن يزدجرد الثالث

son of the last Sasanian; in al-Baladhuri, fallen to the Turks who married him and kept him among them.

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The Rashidun Caliphate · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Persia & Central Asia
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Firuz ibn Yazdegerd III, son of the last of the Persian kings. Al-Baladhuri reports that, as they claim, he fell into the hands of the Turks, who married him to one of their women, and he remained with them. 1

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The Death of Yazdgard ibn Shahriyar

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Abd Allah ibn Amir· Mahuwayh· Nizak Tarkhan· يزدجرد بن شهريار· Merv· The Death of Yazdgard ibn Shahriyar

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Abd Allah ibn Amir

He came to Basra in the year 30 AH, then went out to Fars and conquered it, and sent Mujashi' ibn Mas'ud in pursuit of Yazdegerd. The index records his march to Khurasan and the conquests he made there in 31 AH. According to al-Baladhuri, he came to Basra in the year 29, when all of Fars had been conquered except Istakhr and Jur.