Shāpūr (Persian: شاپور, meaning son of the king) or Shahpur (شاهپور) is a Persian male given name popular in Iran and other Persian speaking countries...

Shapur II (Middle Persian: 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩 Šābuhr, 309–379), also known as Shapur the Great, was the tenth Sasanian King of Kings (Shahanshah) of Iran....

Shapur I (also spelled Shabuhr I; Middle Persian: 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩, romanized: Šābuhr) was the second Sasanian King of Kings of Iran. The precise dating...

King Shapur may refer to: Shapur I - second king of the Sasanian Empire, ruling from 240 to 270 Shapur II - tenth king of the Sasanian Empire, ruling...

Shapur II on the right and Shapur III on the left. Two inscriptions in Middle Persian are etched on both sides. The inscriptions contain their names and...

Shapur III (Middle Persian: 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩 Šābuhr), was the Sasanian King of Kings (shahanshah) of Iran from 383 to 388. He was the son of Shapur II...

Shahpur, Shapur, Shahpoor, or Shahapur (Persian: شاه پور) may refer to: Shapur (name), Persian given name and a list of people with the name Shahpur,...

"acquired by Shapur", or from Gund-dēz-i Shāpūr, means "military fortress of Shapur", or from Weh-Andiyok-Shāpūr, "Better-than-Antioch of Shapur". It is known...

from the river. It was refounded by the Sasanian shah Shapur I under the name of Vuzurg-Shapur (3rd century CE) and settled with Roman captives. According...

Shapur IV (Middle Persian: 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩 Šāhpuhr), was king of Sasanian Armenia from 415 to 420, who briefly ruled the Sasanian Empire in 420. The only...

Shapur (Middle Persian: 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩) was an Iranian prince, who was the penultimate King of Persis from 207–210 to 211/2. He was succeeded by his younger...

shah Shapur I, and was married to a certain queen named Denag, who bore him several children named Hormizd, Hormizdag, Odabakht, Bahram, Shapur, Peroz...

region, forming the name Hindūstān. Thus, Sindh was referred to as Hindustān in the Naqsh-e-Rustam inscription of Sassanid emperor Shapur I in c. 262 CE....

overthrew the local Persian shah named Gochihr and appointed his son, Shapur, instead of him. According to Al-Tabari's report, Shapur and his father, Papak, suddenly...

also features in the names of the towns founded by Sassanid dynasts, for instance in Ērān-xwarrah-šābuhr "Glory of Ērān (of) Shapur". It also appears in...

include representations of the investitures of Ardashir II (379–383) and Shapur III (383–388). Like other Sassanid symbols, Taq-e Bostan, and its relief...

emperor to have been taken captive in battle, captured by the Persian emperor Shapur I after the Battle of Edessa, causing shock and instability throughout the...

244, Shapur renamed the town to Peroz-Shapur (Pērōz-Šāpūr or Pērōz-Šābuhr, from Middle Persian: 𐭯𐭥𐭩𐭥𐭦𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩, meaning "victorious Shapur"; in...

to wearing the inconvenient lamellar armor. Ardashir I's son and heir, Shapur I, as portrayed in the Sasanian rock reliefs, also took part in the battle...

Inscription of Shapur I, where the king says "I am the lord of the Empire of the Iranians". More commonly, as the ruling dynasty was named after Sasan,...

Shapur of Ray was a Sasanian military officer from the Mihran family. The city Ray in his name was the seat of the Mihran family. According to Abu Hanifa...

Empire under the command of Emperor Valerian and the Sasanian Empire under Shapur I, in Edessa (now the Turkish city of Urfa) in 260. The Roman army was defeated...

purpose (implying Shapur I)." There is no knowledge of the name of the structure in any earlier periods. Ibn al-Balkhi has mentioned the name of the area of...

successor, Shapur I (r. 240/42–270/72) chooses the titles in a precise manner in the inscription at Ka'ba-ye Zartosht. In that Shapur names four of his...

(shahanshah) of Iran from 379 to 383. He was the brother of his predecessor, Shapur II (r. 309–379), under whom he had served as vassal king of Adiabene, where...

Grumbates accompanied Shapur II in the war against the Romans. Grumbates thus participated in the Siege of Amida in 359 CE as an ally of Shapur II. His participation...

Ramin Rebin Ramtin Ribaz Sourena Sorosh Saman Sassan Sepehr Sepanta Shahin Shapur Shaya Shovan Shahbaz Shervin Tishk Vahid Zana (Persian: زانا, lit. 'smart...

transliteration is Vahagn/Vrām. The name is attested in Georgian as Baram and Latin as Vararanes. Bahram I was the oldest son of Shapur I, the second shah of the...

reigns of four Sasanian kings in the 3rd century. His name is cited in the inscriptions of Shapur I (as well as in the Res Gestae Divi Saporis) and the...

The Martyrs of Persia under Shapur II were Christian martyrs who were put to death by Shapur II of Persia (r. 309–379) for failing to renounce their faith...