Editing Military rank (section)

=== Persian ===
The army of ancient [[Persia]] consisted of manageable military groupings under the individual commands. Starting at the bottom, a unit of 10 was called a ''dathabam'' and was led by a ''dathapatis''. A unit of 100 men was a ''satabam'' led by a ''satapatis''. A unit of 1,000 was a ''hazarabam'' and was commanded by a ''hazarapatis''. A unit of 10,000 was a ''baivarabam'' and was commanded by a ''baivarapatis''. The Greeks called such masses of troops a ''myrias'' or ''myriad''. Among mounted troops, an ''asabam'' was a [[cavalry]] unit led by an ''asapatis''.

Historians have discovered the existence of the following ranks in [[Parthia]]n and [[Sassanid army|Sassanian]] armies:

* Commander-in-chief: ''[[Spahbod|Eran spahbod]]'' (to be replaced with four ''[[spahbod]]s'', one for each frontier of the empire during the reign of [[Khosrau I]])
* Commander of the [[cavalry]]: ''Aspwargan salar'' (Parthian) or ''aswaran salar'' (Sassanian)
* Commander of the archers: ''Tirbodh''
* Commander of the [[infantry]]: ''paygan salar''
* [[Castellan]]: ''[[Argbadh]]'' or ''[[Argbadh|argbod]]''
* Commander of a frontier march: ''Marzpawn'' (Parthian) or ''[[marzban]]'' (Sassanian)
* [[Marzban]] of [[Central Asia]]n marches was called ''kanarang''