Mazyar

Mazyar
Ispahbadh
Padishkhwargarshah
Bust of Mazyar in Sari, Iran
Ispahbadh of the Qarinvand dynasty
Reign817–839
PredecessorQarin ibn Vindadhhurmuzd
SuccessorQuhyar
Ispahbadh of Tabaristan
Reign825/6-839
PredecessorShapur (Bavandids)
Vinda-Umid (Paduspanids)
SuccessorQarin I
Bornca. 800
Lafur, Tabaristan
DiedSeptember 839
Samarra
DynastyQarinvand dynasty
FatherQarin ibn Vindadhhurmuzd
ReligionZoroastrianism

Mazyar (Middle Persian: Māh-Izād; Mazandarani/Persian: مازیار, romanizedMāzyār) was an Iranian prince from the Qarinvand dynasty, who was the ruler (ispahbadh) of the mountainous region of Tabaristan from 825/6 to 839. For his resistance to the Abbasid Caliphate, Mazyar is considered one of the national heroes of Iran by twentieth-century Iranian nationalist historiography. His name means "protected by the yazata of the moon".