They were stationed during peacetime in the royal capital of Ctesiphon and were drawn from the best of the ranks of the Sasanian Savārān cavalry. They numbered 1000 men, under the command of the pushtigban-salar ; in battle they fought mostly as cataphracts, heavily armed and armoured horsemen who would charge enemy positions with tremendous momentum.
A sub-unit of pushtigban were the gyan-avspar, the "sacrificers of their lives" - the best of the pushtigban. The pushtigban fought with distinction and zeal befitting their name during Julian's invasion of Persia in the 4th century AD.
pushtigban, pushtigban, elite, military, unit, sasanian, empire, charged, with, protection, persian, emperor, active224, 644allegiancesasanian, empiretypeheavy, cavalrysize1, 000headquartersctesiphonengagementsbattle, samarra, battle, callinicum, unnamed, othe. The pushtigban was an elite military unit of the Sasanian Empire charged with the protection of the Persian Emperor PushtigbanActive224 644AllegianceSasanian EmpireTypeHeavy cavalrySize1 000HeadquartersCtesiphonEngagementsBattle of Samarra Battle of Callinicum unnamed others They were stationed during peacetime in the royal capital of Ctesiphon and were drawn from the best of the ranks of the Sasanian Savaran cavalry They numbered 1000 men under the command of the pushtigban salar in battle they fought mostly as cataphracts heavily armed and armoured horsemen who would charge enemy positions with tremendous momentum There are allusions to the participation of this unit in sources describing the Shapur II s Arab campaign and Siege of Amida 359 1 A sub unit of pushtigban were the gyan avspar the sacrificers of their lives the best of the pushtigban The pushtigban fought with distinction and zeal befitting their name during Julian s invasion of Persia in the 4th century AD The pushtigban disappeared with the Muslim conquest of Persia that led to the Fall of the Sasanian Empire See also editImmortals Sasanian Empire CataphractBibliography editFarrokh Kaveh 2005 Sassanian Elite Cavalry AD224 642 Osprey Publishing Morony Michael G 2005 1984 Iraq After The Muslim Conquest Gorgias Press LLC ISBN 978 1 59333 315 7 References edit Farrokh Kaveh Maksymiuk Katarzyna Garcia Javier Sanchez 2018 The Siege of Amida 359 CE Archeobooks pp 34 35 ISBN 978 83 7051 887 5 nbsp This article related to the Iranian armed forces is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Pushtigban amp oldid 1079774141, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
