Wuzurg framadār (Middle Persian: LBʾ plmtʾr, meaning "the grand commander or the grand commanding body") was a Sasanian office which was equivalent to...
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names for this office during different historical periods such as Wuzurg Framadar, Vizier (Persian: وزیر), Sāheb Divān (Persian: صاحبدیوان), Vizier...
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the royal guard, but later became increasingly equal to that of the wuzurg framadar (minister). The title is first attested in the Achaemenid Empire in...
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form of Mahadharjushnas, was an Iranian nobleman who served as the wuzurg framadār (vizier or prime minister) of the Sasanian Empire during the reign...
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Khosrow-Yazdegerd is the second person known to occupy the office of wuzurg framadar (grand vizier) after Abarsam, who was active under Ardashir I (r. 224–242)...
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high-ranking officer in Sasanian Iran, who served as the minister (wuzurg framadar) of king Ardashir I (r. 224–242). Shavarebi 2017, p. 627. Yarshater...
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the free dictionary. List of grand viziers of Persia Wasita (title) Wuzurg framadar In the Ottoman Empire Grand vizier "vizier". Lexico UK English Dictionary...
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Iranian dignitary from the House of Suren, who served as minister (wuzurg framadar) of the Sasanian shahanshahs Yazdegerd I (r. 399–420), Bahram V (r...
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was an Iranian nobleman from the Suren family. He may have been the wuzurg framadār (vizier or prime minister) of the Sasanian shah Bahram V, and thus...
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Ottoman grand viziers List of Safavid grand viziers Sokoto Grand Vizier Wuzurg framadar In languages of ethnic minorities: Armenian: Mec epark‘osi Bulgarian:...
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At the urging of the Zoroastrian priests and the Surenid minister (wuzurg framadar) Mihr Narseh, Bahram V began his reign with a systematic persecution...
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sage and dignitary from the Karen family, who served as minister (wuzurg framadār) of the Sasanian king (shah) Kavad I (r. 498–531), and the latter's...
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from the House of Mihran, who served as one of Khosrow I's viziers (wuzurg framadar). Izadgushasp is first mentioned during the reign of Khosrow I, as...
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early 5th century, a bridge was built in Gor by the Sasanian minister (wuzurg framadār) Mihr Narseh, who was a native of Abruwan, a subdistrict in Ardashir-Khwarrah...
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Azen Gushnasp was an Iranian statesman who served as the minister (wuzurg framadār) of the Sasanian king Hormizd IV (r. 579–590) from an unknown date...
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early 5th-century, a bridge was built in Gor by the Sasanian minister (wuzurg framadār) Mihr Narseh, who was a native of Abruwan, a subdistrict in Ardashir-Khwarrah...
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to the 5th-century Armenian historian Elishe, it was equivalent to wuzurg framadār or prime minister. From Persian, the term also passed into Armenian...
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Another of Sukhra's sons, Bozorgmehr, was made Kavad's great minister (wuzurg framadar). Kavad's reclamation of his throne displays the troubled circumstances...
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Armenians rebelled in 450 under the leadership of Vardan Mamikonian, the wuzurg-framadar (minister) Mihr-Narseh appointed Mushkan as the head of Iranian forces...
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the new king of the Sasanian Empire. Piruz was then elected as his wuzurg framadār (vizier or prime minister); reportedly, under Kavadh's orders, he executed...
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He first appears in 484, when Peroz I appoints him as the minister (wuzurg framadār) of the empire. Peroz I was defeated and killed the same year during...
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follows: (the exact nature of some of these are not well-understood) Wuzurg-framadar, who could become the commander-in-chief and was entrusted to engage...
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the throne, she appointed Farrukh Hormizd as the chief minister (or wuzurg framadār) of the empire. She then attempted to bring stability to Iran by the...
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although he retained the staunch Zurvanite Mihr-Narseh as his minister (wuzurg framadar). Under Peroz, the Iranian calendar was reformed; the New Year (Nowruz)...
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of the affairs of government; the head of the bureaucracy was the wuzurg framadar (vizier or prime minister). Within this bureaucracy the Zoroastrian...
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Mogh are mentioned. According to the inscription, the high posts of wuzurg framadar, priest of priests and Herbadan Herbad were not yet established in...
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Abarshahr to face the threat from the Kidarites and left his minister (wuzurg framadar) Mihr Narseh in charge of the Sasanian Empire. He spent many years...
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represented by Kanadbak. Kavadh II thereafter ordered his vizier (wuzurg framadar) Piruz Khosrow to execute all his brothers and half-brothers, including...
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is notable for being the birthplace of Mihr-Narseh, the minister (wuzurg framadar) of the Sasanian monarchs Yazdegerd I (r. 399–420), Bahram V (r. 420–438)...
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Yazdegerd appointed Mihr Narseh of the Suren family as his minister (wuzurg framadar). This brief persecution did not mar Yazdegerd I's representation in...
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