Marzban
Commanders of border provinces in the Parthian and Sasanian Empires / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the villages in Iran, see Marzban, Iran and Pir Marzban.
For the dessert, see Marzipan.
Marzbān, or Marzpān[1] (Middle Persian transliteration: mrzwpn, derived from marz "border, boundary" and the suffix -pān "guardian"; Modern Persian: مرزبان Marzbān) were a class of margraves, warden of the marches, and by extension military commanders,[2] in charge of border provinces of the Parthian Empire (247 BC–224 AD) and mostly Sasanian Empire (224–651 AD) of Iran.