Adhar Valash
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Adhar Valash was an Iranian prince from the House of Karen, who ruled Tabaristan and Gurgan under the authority of the last Sasanian emperor Yazdegerd III ({{reign|632|651}}).
The name of Adhar Valash is a combination of ādur/ādar ("fire") and the personal name of Walāxš (also spelled Walākhsh). A descendant of the prominent 6th-century statesman Bozorgmehr, Adhar Valash had been given control over the provinces during the Arab conquest of Iran.{{sfn|Pourshariati|2008|p=302}} Not long after, his domain was threatened by the Gil Gavbara, a great-grandson of the 5th-century Sasanian ruler Jamasp ({{reign|496|498}}).{{sfn|Pourshariati|2008|p=303}} Adhar Valash requested the aid of Yazdegerd III, who, however, after being informed of Gil Gavbara's Sasanian descent, ordered Adhar Valash to submit to the latter.{{sfn|Pourshariati|2008|p=302}} Some time afterwards, Adhar Valash died during a game of polo after falling from his horse.{{sfn|Ibn Isfandiyar|1905|p=97}} A grandson of Adhar Valash, also named Valash, ruled Tabaristan from 665 to 673.
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- {{cite book |last = Pourshariati |first = Parvaneh |title = Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran |location = London and New York |publisher = I.B. Tauris |year = 2008 |isbn = 978-1-84511-645-3 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=I-xtAAAAMAAJ }}
- {{cite book | last = Ibn Isfandiyar | first = Muhammad ibn al-Hasan | author-link = Ibn Isfandiyar | title = An Abridged Translation of the History of Tabaristan, Compiled About A.H. 613 (A.D. 1216). | others = Trans. Edward G. Browne. | publisher = E.J. Brill | location = Leyden | year = 1905 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=HhNgAAAAMAAJ }}