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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 239 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BALASH (in the Greek authors, Balas; the later form of the name Vologaeses)  ,
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Sassanian king in A.D . 484-488, was the
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brother and successor of Peroz, who had died in a
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battle against the Hephthalites (White
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Huns) who invaded
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Persia .from the east . He put down the
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rebellion of his brother Zareh, and is praised as a mild and generous monarch, who made concessions to the Christians . But as he did nothing against his enemies, he was, after a reign of four years, deposed and blinded, and his
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nephew, Kavadh I., raised to the
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throne . (ED .

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