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    Bahram V (also spelled Wahram V or Warahran V; Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭), also known as Bahram Gur (New Persian: بهرام گور, "Bahram the onager [hunter]")...
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    Tappe Mil (redirect from Bahram Fire temple)
    Rey, Iran which has stood since the Sasanian Empire. It is named after Bahram V. About 12 kilometers southeast of Ray city towards Varamin, on the top...
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  • was briefly Sasanian King of Kings of Iran in 420. Khosrow was the son of Bahram IV (r. 388–399), the sixteenth king (shah) of the Sasanian Empire. Since...
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    modern Uzbekistan). Bahram deposed the vassal king of the Iranian-held area of Armenia and made it a province of the empire. Bahram V's son Yazdegerd II...
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    Verethragna or Bahram (Avestan: 𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬭𐬀𐬖𐬥𐬀‎ vərəθraγna) is a Zoroastrian deity. The neuter noun verethragna is related to Avestan verethra, 'obstacle'...
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    Iran, azhdahās appear in a number of stories. Sām, Rostam, Esfandiar, Bahram V (Gur) are among the heroes that kill an azhdaha. "AŽDAHĀ". ENCYCLOPÆDIA...
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    (shahanshah) of Iran from 438 to 457. He was the successor and son of Bahram V (r. 420–438). His reign was marked by wars against the Eastern Roman Empire...
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    kingdom until 428. In 428, Armenian nobles petitioned Bahram V to depose Artaxias IV (r. 422); Bahram V (r. 420–438) abolished the Kingdom of Armenia and...
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    399 to 420. A son of Shapur III (r. 383–388), he succeeded his brother Bahram IV (r. 388–399) after the latter's assassination. Yazdegerd I's largely-uneventful...
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    also known as Bahramnameh (بهرام‌نامه, The Book of Bahram, referring to the Sasanian emperor Bahram V) is a romantic epic by Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi...
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  •  388–399) Bahrām V Gōr (r. 421–438) Bahrām VI Čōbīn (r. 590–591) Bahram VII (died 710) Bahram Gushnasp, 6th-century Sassanid military commander Bahram-i Mah...
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    Like Nizami's Haft Paykar, Khusrow's Hasht Bihisht uses a legend about Bahram V Gur as its frame story and, in the style of One Thousand and One Nights...
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  • Khan Abdul Bahram Khan (Urdu: خان عبدل بهرام خان) was the founder of major political family; Family of Bahram Khan of Pakistan. Khan Abdul Bahram Khan's sons...
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    The casus belli was the persecution of Christians by the Sassanid king Bahram V, which had come as a response to attacks by Christians against Zoroastrian...
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    churches. 420 - Coronation of Bahram V (Bahram Gūr). 421 - Peace between Persia and Rome comes to an end. 422 - Bahram V triumphs in driving off an assault...
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  • descended from the Sogdian ruler Divashtich, who was, in turn, a descendant of Bahram V Gur. The solid lines indicate parent-to-child lineage and the dotted lines...
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  • stucco decorations that researchers identified the royal resident to be Bahram V (420–438 AD)—Sasanian kings had their distinctive crowns separately, and...
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    Muiz ud-Din Bahram (Persian: معز الدین بهرام; 9 July 1212 – 15 May 1242, r. 1240–1242) was the sixth sultan of the Mamluk Dynasty. He was the son of Shams...
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    Bahram II (also spelled Wahram II or Warahran II; Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭) was the fifth Sasanian King of Kings (shahanshah) of Iran, from 274 to...
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    respect as he built a monastery and lived a pious life. The Sasanian emperor Bahram V won the throne with support of al-Mundhir I ibn al-Nu'man, king of Ḥīrā...
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    early 5th century by the Kidarites, who forced Yazdegerd I (r. 399–420), Bahram V (r. 420–438), and/or Yazdegerd II to pay them tribute. Although this did...
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  • besieges Aetius over the Visigoths in the Battle of Mons Colubrarius. Bahram V dies after an 18-year reign as Sassanid king of the Persian Empire. He...
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  • wife of Yazdegerd I, the Sasanian emperor from 399-420, and mother of Bahram V, his successor. She was also said to be the daughter of the Exilarch (Middle...
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    Kayanian ideology and history would continue until the end of the empire. Bahram V (r. 420–438), on some rare coins minted in Pars, used the title of kirbakkar...
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  • Bahram VII (Middle Persian: Wahrām) was the son of Yazdegerd III, the last Shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire. After the death of his father at Merv in...
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    Publishers, in affiliation with the Haredi Youth Organization. OCLC 233090728., s.v. Seder Olam Zutta, p. 107 (who gives the year of his ascension as 2875 anno...
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    was the son of Yazdegerd I and Shushandukht, and had two brothers named Bahram V and Narse. At the death of the Arsacid Armenian king Khosrov IV, Yazdegerd...
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    but is mildly rebuked by her father Anu, is directly paralleled in Book V of the Iliad. In this scene, Aphrodite, the Greek adaptation of Ishtar, is...
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  • Xinjiang, China. Shahnameh illustration of Bahram Chobin fighting Bagha Qaghan. Shahnameh illustration of Bahram Chobin and Bagha Qaghan fighting. Turkic...
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    Aspar, Alan patrician and general (magister militum) (approximate date) Bahram V, Sasanian King of Kings (shahanshah) Hassan Yuha'min, king of the Himyarite...
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