Veh-Kavat (also spelled Veh-Kavadh), known in Islamic sources as Bih-Qubadh, was an administrative district within the Sasanian province of Asuristan and is known to have survived the Arab conquest of the Sasanian Empire and existed as a district until the 9th century AD at the least.

Map of the southwestern part of the Sasanian Empire.

It encompassed all of today's cities of Najaf and Kufa in Iraq.

Sources edit

  • Morony, Michael G. (2005) [1984]. Iraq After The Muslim Conquest. Gorgias Press LLC. ISBN 978-1-59333-315-7.
  • Morony, Michael (1989). "BEH-QOBĀD". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. IV, Fasc. 1. p. 109.