Battle of Iskhabad explained

Conflict:Battle of Iskhabad
Partof:the Samanid–Ziyarid Wars
Date:25 December 940
Place:Iskhabad, near Ray
Result:Samanid victory
Combatant1:Samanids
Combatant2:Ziyarid dynasty
Firuzanids
Commander1:Abu 'Ali Chaghani
Casualties1:Low
Casualties2:Heavy

The Battle of Iskhabad (Persian: نبرد اسحاق‌آباد), was a major engagement fought in 940 at Iskhabad, near Ray, between the Samanids, led by Abu 'Ali Chaghani, and the combined forces of the Ziyarids and Firuzanids under the Emir Vushmgir and Makan ibn Kaki. During the first phase of the battle, Vushmgir fled from the battlefield, leaving Makan behind. Many of Makan's elite units were shortly killed, while he himself was shot in the head by an arrow, and then beheaded by the victorious Samanid soldiers, who sent his head, along with many captured high-ranking Daylamite officers, to the Samanid court in Bukhara.

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