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Peroz III
Peroz III (, Persian: پیروز "the Victor"; ) was son of Yazdegerd III, the last Sasanian king of Persia. After the death of his father, who legend says was killed by a miller for his clothes and jewelry (when the governor of Merv might have been the real culprit), he retreated to territory under the control of Tang Dynasty China. He served as a Tang general and the head of the Governorate of Iran, an exiled extension of the Sassanid court. Most of
in 459 CE Peroz, son of Sassanid emperor Yazdegerd II, with allies from the Khorasan area, fought at Ray against his brother- who had succeeded their father as emperor Hormizd III- and thus became emperor Peroz I. Over a century later, the usurper Bahram Chobin was based in the city, though the military action in his brief period as ruler (590-591 CE) seems to have taken place elsewhere- the same may be said for his effective successor Vistahm, who minted coins in the city. Thus it would be wrong