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Military commander from Sasanian Empire
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Nabed or Nabedes (Greek: Ναβέδης Nabédēs) was a Sasanian military commander during the reign of Khosrow I, active in the Lazic War.
He is first recorded as the commander of Nisibis, engaging the Romans in a siege. Procopius quotes Belisarius as describing Nabedes to be the "first among the Persians in glory and in every other sort of honour" after Khosrow I himself. Nabedes defeated a major Byzantine invasion of Armenia in 543 in an ambush at Anglon. He participated in an invasion of Lazica in 550, reaching Abasgia and taking hostages.