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Seven Great Houses of Iran

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Seven Clans or more accurately Seven Parthian clans (Haft Khandan) were seven different Parthian clans who'd constituted the Dahae Confederation. Following the rose to power of Parthians, these seven clans shared the administration of the empire, each governing a region of the empire. Of the most famous clans was Suren clan whom Eran Spahbod Surena was from. They had the province of Sistan.

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