Above ; Ghaleh Yazdgird III
I still remember my few childhood summer trips from Tehran to my Mom,s town, the beautifull Nahavand . In essence, for me, Nahavand represents spirit of true Iran even in comparison with my other half , my Dad’s Bakhtiari heritage which seeks it,s lineage to warrior/tribesmen of glorious Sassanid Eran-shahr . For it , was the sacred place, where true Iran ,for the last time stood in unison, , to defend the motherland and what was left of it in the battle of Nahavand, after the tragic Qadesiyeh & loss of Ctesiphon . Be it Parthians,Sarmatians,Persians, the last bastions of Scythians, Alans ,Dailamis or Medean warriors Kurds & Azaris , they all stood for one last epic heroic stance against Divan (the name by which Iranians called the invaders) . They lost but the proud folks of Nahavand who witnessed the the tragedy 1st hand never forgot and some day one of their sons , Firouz(Abu-loalo) of Nahavand, a one time Sassanid soldier ,a one time Roman POW, and later Gholam /slave to an Arab Warrior (Amru-Moghaireh) saw the begging faces of slave women and children of Iran in Medina , Cried from the heart and took revenge on the Khallifate al Arab Omar with his stollen sword .
I remember the town , the beautiful ancient dialect , the green valleys & never ending mountains , the friendly & humble folks yet proud of their Medeo-Persian heritage , the magnificent Sassanid Yazdgird fort , built by Espahbod Firouzan 641AD ,brother of Rostam Farokhzad the Commander of Iran’s Army who died in Qadesiyeh 637AD but above all, the ancient folklor that did resonate in their daily lives dating & granting it,s lineage to a far way land & memory in time , their glorious Iran . Talk to most Nahavandis and the 1st thing You notice is their devotion to anything Iranic . If You are a willing listener , They will tell you endless tales of the battle , the outcome , the Yazdgird fort , stories of heroics & the tragic fate . Nahavand is true slice of our glorious Iranic legacy. I am truly blessed to be part Nahavandi . God bless em & all true Iranians world wide .
Nahavand is a town in Hamadan Province in Iran. It is located in south of Hamadan, east of Malayer and shouthwest of Borujerd. Nahavand is one of the oldest existing cities of the modern Iran.Mah-Nahavand (in Sassanid era) , Greeks called it Antiochia of Chosroes & Romans named it Laodicea .
According to Roman Historian Strabo ,The city was founded by Darius I the Great, in Media along with the two other cities of Apamea and Xerxes. Pliny describes it as being in the extreme limits of Media, and refounded by XerxesI .The city was a center of Khosru I empire. After military reverses following his sack of Syrian Antiochia in 538, he was forced to rename his capital “Antiochia“.It is the site of the Battle of Nahavand in 642 that completed the fall of the Sassanid Empire and the Arab conquest of Iran.
The earliest find, resistance-poetry by Nahavandi Zorostrian patriot dreaming to reclaime Iran as Quoted by Historian J Baily around 789AD (close to Ecbataneh pahlavi dialect) , first printed in Pahlavi original form in Bombai Parsi Journal (Aram Jamsheed) 1934 & later on translated to Farsi by Sadegh Hedayat.
Kaay bashad keh payki ayad az hedoostan keh amad ann shah bahram az doodeh kian
kash pil hast hezar va bar sarasar ast pilban keh arasteh drafsh darad aeeneh khosrovan
pisheh lashgar barand ba sepah,sardaran mardi gosil bayad kardan zirak tarjoman
keh ravad va begooyad beh hendovan keh maa cheh didim az dashteh tazian
Ba yek gorouh deeneh khish parakandand va beraft shahanshahi maa beh sabab ishan
chon divan din darand, chon sag khorand naan bestanand shahi az khosrovan
na beh honar ya mardi, ba afsoos va rishkhand bestondand beh setam az mardoman
zan ,khasteh shirin, bagh va boostan jazieh barnahadand va pakhsh kardand bar saran
ba slick bekhastand sav-garan bengar ta cheh badi dar afkanad in dorough be kian
Keh nist az ann bad-tar chizi beh jahan
