Nabedes
Sasanian military commander during the reign of Khosrow I
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Naved,[1] Nabed, Nahbed,[2] Nabedes (Greek: Ναβέδης Nabédēs), or Nobades was a Sasanian military commander during the reign of Khosrow I.
He is first recorded as the commander of Nisibis, engaging the Romans in a battle during Belisarius invasion of Mesopotamia in 541. In a speech to his soldiers before the battle, Belisarius had described Nabedes to be the "first among the Persians in glory and in every other sort of honour" after Khosrow I himself.[3] In 543, Nabedes and his outnumbered forces defeated a major Byzantine invasion of Armenia in an ambush at Anglon. During the Lazic War, he performed an invasion in 550,[4] reaching Abasgia and taking hostages, including Theodora, the wife of Opsites of Lazica.[5]
