Qualla: Battle of Blarathon https://qualla.com/battle-of-blarathon en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Blarathon https://qualla.com/battle-of-blarathon Battle of Blarathon: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-blarathon/ A chain and a spindle -- that is what Shah Hormizd IV sent to his most successful general, Bahram Chobin, after a minor battlefield setback in 590. The gifts were an insult calculated to wound: you are no warrior, they said, but a slave, ungrateful as a woman. It was precisely the kind of humiliation that topples empires. Within months, Bahram had marched on the Sasanian capital, seized the throne, and sent the rightful heir fleeing to the court of Persia's oldest enemy. The battle that followed, fought over three days on a plain near Ganzak, would rearrange the power map of the entire Near East.

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/8/f/battle-of-blarathon-wp/tn8f-battle-of-blarathon-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Blarathon: A General's Revenge https://qualla.com/battle-of-blarathon/ Bahram Chobin was the most celebrated military commander of his era. His campaigns had brought fame that the Sasanian Shah Hormizd IV apparently could not tolerate. When Hormizd seized on a minor defeat at the Aras River to strip Bahram of his command, the general did not retire ...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/8/f/battle-of-blarathon-wp/tn8f-battle-of-blarathon-a-generals-revenge.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Blarathon: The Emperor's Gambit https://qualla.com/battle-of-blarathon/ Khosrow did not run far. Together with his uncles Bendoy and Bestam, he sought refuge at the Byzantine court of Emperor Maurice. Here was a chance no Byzantine strategist could refuse: a legitimate Persian claimant, desperate and willing to pay. Maurice agreed to restore Khosrow ...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/8/f/battle-of-blarathon-wp/tn8f-battle-of-blarathon-the-emperors-gambit.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Blarathon: Three Days on the Blarathon https://qualla.com/battle-of-blarathon/ Bahram understood the danger of letting his enemies consolidate. He set out from Ctesiphon with a smaller force, hoping to engage the Byzantines before they linked up with their allies. He arrived too late. Near the ancient city of Ganzak, in the hills of northwestern Persia, the...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/8/f/battle-of-blarathon-wp/tn8f-battle-of-blarathon-three-days-on-the-blarathon.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Blarathon: The Price of a Throne https://qualla.com/battle-of-blarathon/ Khosrow paid dearly for his restoration. The territorial concessions he had promised to Maurice reshaped the Caucasus. The Sasanians returned the fortress cities of Dara and Martyropolis. They ceded a constellation of Armenian and Georgian strongholds -- Armavir, Manzikert, Ani, ...

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