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The entire Persian army was 50,000 to 150,000 and they took the entire army to a battle? That seems very strange to me! 82.70.40.190 It may seem strange to you but this was in effect a Persian last stand so taking their full force in order to quell the Arabian threat seems a fair assumption to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.245.112.146 (talk) 17:52, 19 February 2008 (UTC) Military handbooks reproduced by later Arab authors suggests that the army should be no bigger than 20,000, which seems to reflect what was normally raised by the Spahbed of each quarter. This seems like a very exaggerated number, and I am curious about sources for this, especially as the logistic difficulties of feeding such large numbers in this location would seem to be very challenging. Doug Melville (talk) 07:35, 3 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Name of article[edit]

The name should be Battle of Nahavand, without the macron, which is how it's normally referred to in English. The transcription with the macron (Nahāvand) should be inserted after the Arabic to clarify it, but it is not normally used in English. Languagehat (talk) 22:55, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 19 May 2019[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Moved. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 18:00, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Battle of Nahāvand → Battle of Nahavand – No need for a macron, we don't tend to use that. --HistoryofIran (talk) 13:22, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Per nom. Its redundant. - LouisAragon (talk) 16:28, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Per WP:USEENGLISH as it's not commonly used in English. Rreagan007 (talk) 19:17, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Same goes here, per Rreagan007.---Wikaviani ^{(talk) (contribs)} 21:04, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Sassanid numbers[edit]

It is very unlikely that after having their capital taken and the huge losses at al-qaddisiyah that the sassanids could field 100,000-150,000 men, even if they were just local levies.