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Mazyar
Mazyar was the last prince of the Qarinvand dynasty of Tabaristan, in the mountains south of the Caspian Sea. He converted to Islam under the caliph al-Ma'mun and governed Tabaristan, but in 839 he rebelled against al-Mu'tasim and the Tahirid governors of Khurasan. Betrayed and captured, he was taken to Samarra and executed in 840. Later Iranian tradition remembered him as a defender of Iran against Arab rule.
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