Mazun
Mazun may refer to: * Mazun (Sasanian province) *Sohar Sohar () is the capital and largest city of the Al Batinah North Governorate in Oman. An ancient capital of the country that once served as an important Islamic port town on the Gulf of Oman, Sohar has also been credited as the mythical birthp ...

Mazun (Sasanian Province)
Mazun was a Sasanian province in Late Antiquity, which corresponded to modern-day Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and the northern half of Oman. The province served as a Sasanian outpost and played an important role in the Sasanian efforts to gain control over the Indian Ocean trade, and to establish their dominance in the wealthy regions of Hadramaut and Yemen. In the 6th-century, the province was ruled by the clients and allies of the Sasanians, the Lakhmids. History Eastern Arabia was in c. 240 conquered by Ardashir I (), who made it into the province of Mazun. According to the 8th-century '' Šahrestānīhā ī Ērānšahr'', Ardashir appointed a certain Oshag of Hagar as ''marzban'' (general of a frontier province, "margrave") over the "Do-sar and Borg-gil by the wall of the Arabs." He also deported the prominent Azd tribe from Oman to Shihr on the Hadhramaut coast. During the childhood of shah Shapur II (), Arab nomads made several incursions into the Sasanian ...
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