Padgospan

Padgospan (also spelled Padghospan, Padhuspan and Baduspan) was a high-ranking office in the late Sasanian era, which functioned as the lieutenant of the Spahbed (marshal). ^[1]

Known Paygospans

Name	Area	Spahbed	King	Other titles
Dadhi, son of Nakhirjan [2]	"the North": Adurbadagan, Armenia and its areas, Media, Tabaristan and its regions (i.e. Gilan and Daylam)	unknown	Khosrow I [3]
Mardanshah	Nemroz (Sistan)	Shahrbaraz	Hormizd IV, Khosrow II [4]
Shahin Vahmanzadegan	Mesopotamia (Assyria)	unknown	Khosrow II	Marzban of Armenia
unknown ("al-Fadhusfan") [5]	Spahan	unknown	Yazdegerd III	Ostandar, Marzban of Spahan, King ( Malik ) [6]

References

1. Morony 2005, p. 28.
2. Persian : داذی, romanized: Dādhī, son of Persian : نخیرجان, romanized: Nakhīrjān (Persian : نخویرگان, romanized: Nakhwīragān) (Al-Tabari)
3. [محمدحسن گنجی، عباس زریاب خویی: آذربایجان. در: دائرةالمعارف بزرگ اسلامی. ۱۳۹۸.] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)
4. Ilkka Syvänne: Military History of Late Rome 602–641. Pen and Sword Military, 2022, ISBN 9781399075701, p. 214.
5. According to Pourshariati, "al-Fadhusfan" (which is the Araibzed form of Paygospan) was actually the title, and not the name, of the person. Cf. Parvaneh Pourshariati: Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran. I.B. Tauris, London 2008, ISBN 9781845116453, p. 247.
6. Hossein Kamaly: ISFAHAN vi. MEDIEVAL PERIOD. In: Encyclopædia Iranica .

Sources

• Marciak, Michał (2017). Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene: Three Regna Minora of Northern Mesopotamia Between East and West. BRILL. ISBN   9789004350724.
• Morony, Michael G. (2005) [1984]. Iraq After The Muslim Conquest. Gorgias Press LLC. ISBN   978-1-59333-315-7.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
• Pourshariati, Parvaneh (2008). Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN   978-1-84511-645-3.