Harev (province)

Harev Harēv
Province of the Sasanian Empire
← ca. 230–651 →
Map of Harev and its surroundings
Capital		Harev
Historical era		Late Antiquity
•	Established	ca. 230
•	Annexed by Nezak Tarkhan after Yazdegerd III's death	651
Today part of		Afghanistan  Iran  Turkmenistan

Harev (also known as Harey), was a Sasanian province in Late Antiquity, that lay within the kust of Khorasan. The province bordered Kushanshahr in the west, Abarshahr in the east, Marv in the north, and Sakastan in the south.

Harev is first mentioned in Shapur I's inscription on the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht. It was also during his reign that the town Pushang was established near the capital of Harev, which had the same name as its province, and is today known as Herat. In ca. 430, a Christian community is mentioned in the capital.

The province played a key role in the boundless wars between the Sasanians and the Xionites and Hephthalites, an nomadic people who had settled in Transoxiana and Tokharistan in the late 4th-century. During the reign of Peroz I (r. 459–484), a group of Armenian nobles were settled in Harev by his foster brother Izad Gushnasp. In 484, Peroz I was defeated and killed by a Hephthalite army under Khushnavaz, who thereafter conquered Harev. The province remained in Hephthalite hands until Kavadh I (r. 488–496 & 498–531) reconquered the province during the early part of his second reign. During the reign of his son and successor Khosrow I (r. 531-579), the province became part of the kust of Khorasan.

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