Naved, Nabed, Nahbed, Nabedes (Greek: Nabédēs), or Nobades was a Sasanian military commander during the reign of Khosrow I.
He is first recorded as the commander of Nisibis, engaging the Romans in a battle during Belisarius invasion of Mesopotamia in 541. In a speech to his soldiers before the battle, Belisarius had described Nabedes to be the "first among the Persians in glory and in every other sort of honour" after Khosrow I himself.Procopius, History of the Wars, Book II, XVIII In 543, Nabedes and his outnumbered forces defeated a major Byzantine invasion of Armenia in an ambush at Anglon. During the Lazic War, he did a conquest in 550,Schottky, Martin (Pretzfeld), “Nabedes”, in: Brill's New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 16 January 2019 <https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e815660> reaching Abasgia and taking hostages, including Theodora, the wife of Opsites of Lazica.
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