Sakanshah (

Middle Persian Middle Persian or Pahlavi, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg () in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire. For some time after the Sasanian collapse, Middle Per ...

: ''Sagān-šāh'', "king of the

Saka The Saka (Old Persian: ; Kharoṣṭhī: ; Ancient Egyptian: , ; , old , mod. , ), Shaka (Sanskrit ( Brāhmī): , , ; Sanskrit (Devanāgarī): , ), or Sacae (Ancient Greek: ; Latin: ) were a group of nomadic Iranian peoples who hist ...

") was the title used by the rulers (and later governors) of

Sakastan Sistān ( fa, سیستان), known in ancient times as Sakastān ( fa, سَكاستان, "the land of the Saka"), is a historical and geographical region in present-day Eastern Iran ( Sistan and Baluchestan Province) and Southern Afghanistan (N ...

, first appearing during Surenid rule. The title was also used by the governors of Sakastan and Turgistan during the

Sasanian The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of Iranians (, ) and also referred to by historians as the Neo-Persian Empire, was the History of Iran, last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th-8th cen ...

era. However, during the early reign of king

Peroz I Peroz I ( pal, 𐭯𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭰, Pērōz) was the Sasanian King of Kings () of Iran from 459 to 484. A son of Yazdegerd II (), he disputed the rule of his elder brother and incumbent king Hormizd III (), eventually seizing the throne afte ...

(r. 459–484), the title was abolished.

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* * * * {{cite book , title = The Sistani Cycle of Epics and Iran's National History: On the Margins of Historiography , year = 2015 , publisher = BRILL , last = Gazerani, first = Saghi , pages = 1–250 , isbn = 9789004282964 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=92zsCgAAQBAJ&q=false Iranian words and phrases Sasanian administrative offices History of Sistan and Baluchestan Province Parthian titles and offices Royal titles