Narsieh
Narsieh(Middle Persian:𐭭𐭥𐭮𐭧𐭩Narseh;simplified Chinese:Bùn niết sư;traditional Chinese:Bùn niết sư;pinyin:Nìnièshī) was a Persian general who fled to theTang dynastywith his father,Peroz III,son ofYazdegerd III,the lastSassanid emperor of Persia,after theMuslim conquest of Persia.[1]
He was escorted back to Persia with a Chinese army led byPei Xing gianin 679, in order to restore him to the Sasanian throne, but the army stopped inTokharistan.[2]Pei Xing gian fought successfully against an invasion of Anxi led by theWestern TurkicKhanAshina Duzhi,but Pei then lost his interests in reinstalling the Persian King and left Narsieh in the Anxi Protectorate alone, although Narsieh was still able to maintain his many servants and a high quality of life. Minor Turkic chieftains in the region then pledged their loyalty to the Chinese dynasty due to the defeat of Ashina. The overall result of Pei's expedition was a success for the Tang empire. Upon returning to China, Pei was appointed the minister of rituals and Great general of the right flank guards.
Narsieh then spent the next twenty years fighting theArabsinTokharistanuntil he returned to the Tang China capital ofChang'anin 707, where he lived out the remainder of his life before dying from disease.[1][2]His sons and daughters married into the Chinese nobility.[3][unreliable source?]
Narsieh's uncle,Bahram VII,died in 710, and Bahram's son, Khosrow, was mentioned fighting alongside Sogdians and Turks against the Arabs at thesiege of Kamarjain 729 in a futile attempt to reclaim the Sasanian throne. This is perhaps the last known reference to any direct descendant of Yazdegerd III.[1]
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- ^abcCompareti, Matteo (20 July 2009)."Chinese-Iranian Relations xv. The Last Sasanians in China".Encyclopædia Iranica.Retrieved1 July2017.
- ^abZhou, Xiuqin (University of Pennsylvania) (2009)."Zhaoling: The Mausoleum of Emperor Tang Taizong"(PDF).Sino-Platonic Papers(187): 155–156.
- ^Wong, Frank (11 August 2000)."Pirooz in China: Defeated Persian army takes refuge".The Iranian.Archivedfrom the original on 25 March 2019.Retrieved25 March2019.
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