Battle of Gol-Zarriun

Battle of Gol-Zarriun
Part of Hephthalite–Persian Wars

Turkic horsemen on the Miho funerary couch, c.570 CE.[1]
Datec. 560
Location
Gol-Zarriun, near Bukhara, Sogdia (present day Uzbekistan)
39°46′00″N 64°26′00″E / 39.766667°N 64.433333°E / 39.766667; 64.433333
Result

Perso-Turkic victory[2]

  • The Hephthalite Empire dissolved into minor kingdoms
Territorial
changes
Territory north of the Oxus river ceded to the Göktürks and territory south of the Oxus ceded to the Sasanian Empire
Belligerents
Sasanian Empire
First Turkic Khaganate
Hephthalite Empire
Commanders and leaders
Khosrow I
Istämi
Ghadfar
Battle of Gol-Zarriun is located in West and Central Asia
Battle of Gol-Zarriun
Location within West and Central Asia

The Battle of Gol-Zarriun,[3] also known as Battle of Bukhara, took place in c. 560 when the Sasanian Empire allied with the First Turkic Khaganate against the Hephthalite Empire.

  1. ^ Inagaki, Hajime. Galleries and Works of the MIHO MUSEUM. Miho Museum. p. 121, panel 8.
  2. ^ Bivar 2003, pp. 198–201.
  3. ^ Rezakhani 2017, p. 141.