A beautiful vibrant of the (Babak was born in 795 (or 798) in Bilalabad in the Mimadh district of the Ardabil area, which was part of Azerbaijan, a region in north-western Iran.[11] The Mimadh district had provided the Sasanian marzban ("margrave") of Ardabil with troops during the conquest of Iran in 633–654, which resulted in the fall of the Sasanians and the conquest of Azerbaijan. The region was briefly occupied by the Khazars in 730–731, and had since the mid 8th century been under occupation by the Arab Rawadid clan.[12] Azerbaijan was populated by an Iranian people known as the Adhari, who although closely related, were distinct from the Persians.[4] They spoke Adhari, which according to the 10th-century geographer al-Maqdisi, was similar to Persian.[13]:1.3), by (Frank Xavier Leyendecker and Frederick McCubbin:0.8), (abstract and watercolor:0.8), (painting:0.3) | Painting