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| After the conversion of Armenia to Christianity, and subsequently ] and Albania Balasagan was also slowly converted to Christianity. During the reign of ], the king of Balasagan, ], sided with the Sassanids and helped crush an Armenian revolt, however he himself revolted later on and was executed. | After the conversion of Armenia to Christianity, and subsequently ] and Albania Balasagan was also slowly converted to Christianity. During the reign of ], the king of Balasagan, ], sided with the Sassanids and helped crush an Armenian revolt, however he himself revolted later on and was executed. | ||
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| Naseer Dashti (2012) presents another possibility, that of being derived from the name of the ethnic group `Balaschik' living in Balashagan, between the Caspian Sea and Lake Van in present day Turkey and Azerbaizan, who are believed to have migrated to Balochistan during the Sassanid times. The remnants of the original name such as 'Balochuk' and 'Balochiki' are said to be still used as ethnic names in Balochistan. | |||
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| Balasagan | |||||||||
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| Province of the Sasanian Empire | |||||||||
| 224–651 | |||||||||
| Capital | Derbent | ||||||||
| Historical era | Late Antiquity | ||||||||
| • Sassanid conquest | 224 | ||||||||
| • Rashidun conquest | 651 | ||||||||
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Balasagan (literally meaning "country of Balas") was a satrapy of the Sasanian Empire. Shapur I's inscription at Naqsh-e-Rostam describes the satrapy as "extending to the Caucasus mountains and the Gate of Albania (also known as Gate of the Alans)", but for the most part it was located south of the lower course of the rivers Kura and the Aras (Araxes), bordered on the south by Adurbadagan, and had the Caspian Sea on its east. Balasagan is also mentioned separately from Albania as a province of the empire at Shapur's inscription, which indicates that it was its own political entity even though it was subject to Albania. The monarch of Balasagan also gained the title of King under Ardashir, which would indicate it becoming a vassal.
After the conversion of Armenia to Christianity, and subsequently Iberia and Albania Balasagan was also slowly converted to Christianity. During the reign of Yazdegerd II, the king of Balasagan, Heran, sided with the Sassanids and helped crush an Armenian revolt, however he himself revolted later on and was executed.
Descendants Naseer Dashti (2012) presents another possibility, that of being derived from the name of the ethnic group `Balaschik' living in Balashagan, between the Caspian Sea and Lake Van in present day Turkey and Azerbaizan, who are believed to have migrated to Balochistan during the Sassanid times. The remnants of the original name such as 'Balochuk' and 'Balochiki' are said to be still used as ethnic names in Balochistan.
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