# Perozes

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This article is about the Persian general. For the Persian shah, see [Peroz I](/source/Peroz_I). For other people, see [Peroz](/source/Peroz_(disambiguation)).

**Perozes** (Greek: Περόζης, from [Middle Persian](/source/Middle_Persian) *[Pērōz](/source/Peroz_(disambiguation))*) was the [Sasanian](/source/Sasanian) [Persian](/source/Persians) general opposing the [Byzantines](/source/Byzantine) under [Belisarius](/source/Belisarius) at the [Battle of Dara](/source/Battle_of_Dara) (530).

According to the description of the Byzantine historian [Procopius of Caesarea](/source/Procopius_of_Caesarea), he was "a Persian, whose title was "*mirranes*" (for thus the Persians designate this office), Perozes by name".[1] *Mirranes* (Μιρράνης) however probably refers not to an office, but to the [House of Mihran](/source/House_of_Mihran), one of the [seven great noble clans](/source/Seven_Parthian_clans) of the Sasanian Empire.[2] After his defeat at Dara, he was disgraced by the Persian shah [Kavadh I](/source/Kavadh_I). Nothing else is known of his life.[2] He may however be identical to the *mirranes* who according to Procopius[3] tried to lay siege to [Dara](/source/Dara_(Mesopotamia)) during the [Anastasian War](/source/Anastasian_War).[2]

## References

1. Procopius, *History of the Wars: The Persian War*, [I.13](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_the_Wars%2FBook_I)

1. Martindale, Jones & Morris (1992), p. 991

1. Procopius, *The Buildings*, [II.2.19](https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Procopius/Buildings/2*.html#ref7)

## Sources

- [*The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume III: A.D. 527–641*](https://books.google.com/books?id=ElkwedRWCXkC). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-521-20160-5.

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