Kavad I (Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭥𐭠𐭲 Kawād; 473 – 13 September 531) was the Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 488 to 531, with a two or three-year interruption...

mythological figure of Iranian folklore and oral tradition. Kavadh I, Sasanian king (r. 488–531) Kavadh II, Sasanian king (r. 628) Qubad Kamran, a character...

the Persian shah Kavadh I (r. 488–531) proposed that Emperor Justin I adopt his son, Khosrow I. According to Procopius, Kavadh I tried to force the...

Kavadh I of Persia died (September 531), Justinian concluded an "Eternal Peace" (which cost him 11,000 pounds of gold) with his successor Khosrau I (532)...

reformer who gained influence during the reign of the Sasanian emperor Kavadh I. He claimed to be a prophet of Ahura Mazda and instituted social welfare...

502, during the opening stages of the Anastasian War. The Sasanian ruler Kavadh I laid siege to the city of Theodosiopolis, a major Byzantine stronghold...

- Coronation of Kavadh I; expedition against Khazars. c. 490 - Mazdak teaches his egalitarian ideology with the benefit of Kavadh I’s support. c. 490...

three months before falling to the military of the Sasanian Empire under Kavadh I. According to the detailed account of Zacharias Rhetor, the city's sack...

proved disastrous, and as a result he was replaced by Peroz's son Kavadh I. Kavadh I, during his reign, began worshiping Mazdakism, a modified version...

father Clovis I. Theudis, sword-bearer of former king Theodoric the Great, succeeds Amalaric as new ruler of the Visigoths. King Kavadh I, age 82, dies...

treaties with both Justin I and Kavadh I, but decided on the former, which resulted in mutual agreement between Justin I and Kavadh I, and the former devastating...

Persia and the Byzantine Empire. King Kavadh I invades Armenia and captures Theodosiopolis. Winter – Kavadh I besieges the fortress-city of Amida (modern...

Arabian historian Al-Baladhuri, Barda was established in the period of Kavadh I, who was a Sassanid ruler, while according to 14th-century Iranian historian...

ruled from Mahoza for about seven years. He was eventually defeated by Kavadh I, King of Persia and the office of the exilarch was diminished for sometime...

unsuccessful siege of the Persian-held city Amida, on the Tigris. King Kavadh I invades Osroene, and lays siege to the city of Edessa (Northern Mesopotamia)...

Sasanian nobleman, general, and kanarang during the reigns of Kavadh I (r. 488–531) and Khosrow I (r. 531–579). His life is known only through the work of...

the Sasanians won a Pyrrhic victory. In April 531 AD, the Persian king Kavadh I sent an army under Azarethes, consisting of a cavalry force numbering about...

with assistance from Justin's successor. In 524, the Sassanid emperor Kavadh I approached Justin asking that he formally adopt his youngest son, Khosrow...

pro-Roman line. Once the Hundred Years Peace between Iran and Rome collapsed, Kavadh I of the Sassanids summoned Vakhtang as a vassal to join in a new campaign...

to the Lakhmid king Al-Mundhir III ibn al-Nu'man of al-Ḥīrah and King Kavadh I of Persia to inform them of his deed and to encourage them to do likewise...

the time of Kavadh I and Khosrow I. The cities which are believed to had been constructed by Ardashir are: According to Al-Tabari, Ardashir I founded eight...

Persia and the Byzantine Empire. King Kavadh I invades Armenia and captures Theodosiopolis. Winter – Kavadh I besieges the fortress-city of Amida (modern...

first Sasanian emperor Ardashir I (r. 224–242). The descendants of Gushnasp were still ruling until in ca. 520, when Kavadh I (r. 488–531) appointed his eldest...

Jamasp, who was the son of Sassanid King of Kings Peroz I and the younger brother of Kavadh I, making them a cadet branch of the House of Sassan. Piruz...

Hermogenes, and Kavadh took place. A Persian siege of Martyropolis was interrupted by Kavadh I's death and the new Persian king, Khosrau I, re-opened talks...

the age of fifteen in 483 CE, twelve years before the revolt. After King Kavadh I denied Jews the right to organize their own militia, Mar-Zutra took advantage...

Caesarea and Kayus (كيوس) by early Islamic sources, was the eldest son of Kavadh I, the Sasanian emperor of Iran. During the late reign of his father, Kawus...

supposedly because Kavadh I had tried to force the Iberians to become Zoroastrians. The Iberian king fled from Kavadh, but Kavadh tried to make peace...

reign of Balash and Kavadh I. According to a traditional story, Sukhra left two children, Karin and Zarmihr, who helped Khosrau I protect the eastern...

the beginning of the 6th century CE, when the city was re-established by Kavadh I of the Sassanid dynasty of Persia. Elements of ancient Iranian languages...