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- The Paygān (also known as Paighan) were the conscript light infantry unit within the Sasanian army and formed the bulk of its infantry force. During peacetime...
- Shāhanshāh' defect to the Muslim Arabs as the Arab Conquest progresses. Paighan: Could have been Light conscript infantry that were recruited from the...
- reflected in the military. The azatan aristocracy provided the cavalry, the paighan infantry came from the peasantry and most of the greater Persian nobility...