Battle of Nahavand

Battle of Nahavand
	Part of the Muslim conquest of Persia
	; Painting of the Nahavand Castle, which was one of the last Sasanian strongholds.
Date	642
Location	Nahāvand, near Hamadan, Iran
Result	Rashidun Caliphate victory Near collapse of the Sasanian Empire;
Belligerents
Rashidun Caliphate	Sasanian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas; An-Numan ibn Muqarrin †; Tulayha †; Amru bin Ma'adi Yakrib †; Zubayr ibn al-Awwam	Piruz Khosrow †; Mardanshah †
Strength
30,000	50,000-100,000
Casualties and losses
Heavy	Heavy

The Battle of Nahavand (Arabic: معركة نهاوند Maʿrakah Nahāwand, Persian: نبرد نهاوند Nabard-e Nahâvand), also spelled Nihavand or Nahawand, was fought in 642 between the Rashidun Muslim forces under caliph Umar and Sasanian Persian armies under King Yazdegerd III. Yazdegerd escaped to the Merv area, but was unable to raise another substantial army. It was a victory for the Rashidun Caliphate and the Persians consequently lost the surrounding cities including Spahan (Isfahan).

The former Sassanid provinces, in alliance with Parthian and White Hun nobles, resisted for about a century in the region south of the Caspian Sea, even as the Rashidun Caliphate was replaced by the Umayyads, thus perpetuating the Sassanid court styles, Zoroastrian religion, and Persian language.

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