# Valash

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**Valash** ([Middle Persian](/source/Middle_Persian): *Wardākhsh/Walākhsh*, Persian: بلاش), was an [Iranian](/source/Iranian_peoples) prince from the [House of Karen](/source/House_of_Karen), who later became the ruler of [Tabaristan](/source/Tabaristan) in 665.

He was the grandson of the nobleman [Adhar Valash](/source/Adhar_Valash), and thus a descendant of [Sukhra](/source/Sukhra), a prominent Iranian nobleman who controlled much of the affairs of the Sasanian Empire. In 665, Valash murdered [Farrukhzad](/source/Farrukhzad) who was the ruler of Tabaristan, and then conquered his domains, thus becoming the sole ruler of Tabaristan. Farrukhzad's son, [Surkhab I](/source/Surkhab_I), then fled to a Bavand stronghold in [Mazandaran](/source/Mazandaran) to avoid Valash. In 673, Surkhab avenged his father by killing Valash, and then reconquered Tabaristan from Valash.

## Sources

- Pourshariati, Parvaneh (2008). [*Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran*](https://books.google.com/books?id=I-xtAAAAMAAJ). London and New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-645-3.
- Chaumont, M. L. (1988). ["BALĀŠ"](http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/balas-proper-name##5). *Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. III, Fasc. 6*. pp. 574–580.

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