Arvand Gushnasp was an

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

nobleman, who briefly served as the ''

marzban Marzbān, or Marzpān (Middle Persian transliteration: mrzwpn, derived from ''marz'' "border, boundary" and the suffix ''-pān'' "guardian"; Modern Persian: ''Marzbān'') were a class of margraves, warden of the marches, and by extension milita ...

'' (governor) of

Sasanian Iberia Sasanian Iberia ( ka, სასანური ქართლი, tr; Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭫𐭥𐭰𐭠𐭭, ''wirōzān/wiruzān/wiručān'') refers to the period the Kingdom of Iberia (Kartli, eastern Georgia) was under the suzerainty of t ...

from 540 to 541. He was headquartered in

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...

, and was succeeded as ''marzban'' by

Vezhan Buzmihr Vezhan Buzmihr (or Burzmihr, in Georgian sources as Buzmir) was an Iranian nobleman who served as the ''marzban'' of Sasanian Iberia. He was headquartered in Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its ...

. According to the modern historian Stephen H. Rapp Jr, Arvand Gushnasp may well have been a member of the Mihranid clan, thus perhaps being a Parthian prince by origin, although "one who had come from Iran directly".

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* * 6th-century deaths 6th-century Iranian people Sasanian governors of Iberia Year of birth unknown Generals of Khosrow I {{Sasanian-bio-stub