Sahl Smbatean captures Babak in January 838 …
Years: 838 - 838
January
Sahl Smbatean captures Babak in January 838 and surrenders him to Afshin, for which service Sahl receives one million silver dirhams as a reward.
Babak is soon executed by gruesome torture.
According to Movses Kaghankatvatsi, the Caliphate assigned Sahl sovereignty over Armenia, Georgia and Albania.
Locations
People
Groups
- Georgians
- Arab people
- Persian people
- Jews
- Khorasan, Greater
- Armenia, Ostikanate of
- Khurramites
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Phrygian or Armorian dynasty
- Abbasid Caliphate (Samarra)
