Sakanshah (

Middle Persian Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg ( Inscriptional Pahlavi script: , Manichaean script: , Avestan script: ) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasania ...

: ''Sagān-šāh'', "king of the

Saka The Saka, Old Chinese, old , Pinyin, mod. , ), Shaka (Sanskrit (Brāhmī): , , ; Sanskrit (Devanāgarī): , ), or Sacae (Ancient Greek: ; Latin: were a group of nomadic Iranian peoples, Eastern Iranian peoples who lived in the Eurasian ...

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

Sakastan Sistān (), also known as Sakastān (, , current name: Zabol) and Sijistan (), is a historical region in south-eastern Iran and extending across the borders of present-day south-western Afghanistan, and south-western Pakistan. Mostly correspon ...

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

Sasanian The Sasanian Empire (), officially Eranshahr ( , "Empire of the Iranians"), was an Iranian empire that was founded and ruled by the House of Sasan from 224 to 651. Enduring for over four centuries, the length of the Sasanian dynasty's reign ...

era. However, during the early reign of king

Peroz I Peroz I () was the Sasanian Empire, Sasanian King of Kings () of History of Iran, 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 after a ...

(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