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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 239 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BALASH (in the See also:Greek authors, Balas; the later See also:form of the name See also:Vologaeses)  , See also:Sassanian See also:king in A.D . 484-488, was the See also:brother and successor of See also:Peroz, who had died in a See also:battle against the Hephthalites (See also:White See also:Huns) who invaded See also:Persia .from the See also:east . He put down the See also: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 See also:nephew, See also:Kavadh I., raised to the See also:throne . (ED .

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