Rhahzadh
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Rhahzadh (), originally Roch Vehan (from , "son of Rōzbeh"), known in Byzantine sources as Rhazates () was a Sasanian general of Armenian origin under Shah Khosrow II (r. 590–628).
Key facts
- Military person.name
- Roch Vehan
- Military person.death_date
- 12 December 627
- Military person.birth_place
- Armenia, Sasanian Empire
- Military person.death_place
- Nineveh
- Military person.allegiance
- Sasanian Empire
- Military person.branch
- Sasanian army
- Military person.rank
- Spahbed
- Military person.battles
- Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 Battle of Nineveh (627)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sasanian Empire
- Place of birth
- Sasanian Armenia
- Place of death
- Nineveh
- Occupation
- sovereign
- Military branch
- Sasanian military
- Military rank
- spahbed
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- date of death
- 0627-12-15
- date of birth
- 0600-00-00
- cause of death
- decapitation
- killed by
- Heraclius
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Rhahzadh (), originally Roch Vehan (from , "son of Rōzbeh"), known in Byzantine sources as Rhazates () was a Sasanian general of Armenian origin under Shah Khosrow II (r. 590–628).
==Biography== As the war that had begun in 602 between the Sasanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire came close to its twenty-fifth year, the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (r. 610–641) made a bold move. As the campaigning season of 627 ended, Heraclius gathered his heterogeneous army of Göktürks and Byzantines, and invaded the Persian heartland at the beginning of September. The news threw Khosrau into a panic. After fifteen years of war, his army was exhausted and his two foremost generals were not available; Shahin was dead and Shahrbaraz was away in Egypt, fearing that Khosrau wanted him dead. Consequently, Khosrau gathered an army and appointed as its commander Rhahzadh, a warlike and brave nobleman.
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