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Babak Khorramdin
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Key facts
- Born
- 795 or 798, Ardabil , Abbasid Caliphate , (present-day Iran )
- Died
- probably 7 January 838 (age 40 or 43) , Samarra , Abbasid Caliphate , (present-day Iraq )
- Known for
- Leader of the Khorram-Dinān
- Opponent
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Spouse
- Banu
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Babak
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Ardabil
- Place of death
- Samarra
- Occupation
- warrior
- Languages spoken
- Middle Persian
- Field of work
- military administration
- Conflict
- Babak Khorramdin Revolt
- Image
- Papak Xorramdin.jpg
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- Commons category
- Babak Khorramdin
- ethnic group
- Persians
- date of death
- 0838-01-01
- date of birth
- 0798-07-01
- cause of death
- torture
- owner of
- Babak Castle
- manner of death
- unnatural death
- member of
- Khurramites
- name in native language
- بابک خرمدین
- influenced by
- Abu Muslim al Khorasani
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Encyclopedic overview
Bābak Khorramdin (Persian: بابک خرمدین, romanized: Bābak-e Khorramdīn; 795 or 798 – January 838) was one of the main Iranian revolutionary leaders of the Iranian Khorram-Dinān ("Those of the joyous religion"), which was a local freedom movement fighting the Abbasid Caliphate. Khorramdin appears to be a compound analogous to durustdin "orthodoxy" and Behdin "Good Religion" (Zoroastrianism), and are considered an offshoot of neo-Mazdakism. Babak's Iranianizing rebellion, from its base in Azerbaijan in northwestern Iran, called for a return of the political glories of the Iranian past. The Khorramdin rebellion of Babak spread to the western and central parts of Iran and lasted more than twenty years before it was defeated when Babak was betrayed. Babak's uprising showed the continuing strength of ancestral Iranian local feelings in the region.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Babak Khorramdin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.