Kadagistan (Middle Persian: Kadagistān) was the name of an eastern Sasanian province in the region of Tokharistan (in what is now north-eastern Afghanistan), established by Khosrow I (r. 531–579) after his victory over the Hephthalite Empire in 557. The capital of the province was Warlu, a city located in the valley of the Kunduz River.
Kadagistan | |||||||||
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Province of Sasanian Empire | |||||||||
557–c. 591 | |||||||||
Capital | Warlu | ||||||||
Historical era | Antiquity | ||||||||
• Established by Khosrow I | 557 | ||||||||
• Turkic conquest | c. 591 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Afghanistan |
In 587, the province was briefly seized by the Turkic Khagan Bagha Qaghan (known as Sabeh in Persian sources), who penetrated as far as Herat, thus violating the 557 consensus between Khosrow I and the Khagan Istämi which set the Oxus as the frontier between the two empires.[1] The lands were reconquered by the Sasanian military leader Bahram Chobin in 589. The province was, however, most likely permanently seized by the Turks a few years later, due to the absence of Sasanian coins from the period.[2]
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