Person

Balash

19th Sassanid King of Persia

b. 425 CE – d. 484 CE World The Great Crossroads

Balash (in the Greek authors, Balas; the later form of the name Vologases), the nineteenth Sassanid King of Persia in 484–488, is the brother and successor of Peroz I of Persia (457–484),who had died in a battle against the Hephthalites (White Huns) who invaded Persia from the east.