Bahram Chobin
Sign in to saveAlso known as Bahram VI Chobin, Bahram VI, Wahrām Chōbēn, Wahrām Chōbē, Bahrām Chōbīn, Mihrevandak, Mihrbandak, Bahram Chubin
Sasanian general and political leader (died 591)
Key facts
- Reign
- 590–591
- Predecessor
- Khosrow II
- Successor
- Khosrow II (restored)
- Died
- 591, Fergana , Western Turkic Khaganate
- Issue
- Mihran Noshrad Shapur
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Western Turkic Khaganate
- Place of birth
- Sasanian Empire
- Place of death
- Fergana
- Spouse
- Gordiya
- Father
- Bahram Gushnasp
- Sibling
- Gordiya
- Occupation
- archer
- Position held
- King of Kings
- Languages spoken
- Parthian
- Religion
- Zoroastrianism
- Family
- House of Mihrān
- Sport
- archery
- Military rank
- spahbed
- Image
- BahramChobinCoinHistoryofIran.jpg
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- date of death
- 0592-01-01
- date of birth
- 0600-01-01
- Commons category
- Bahram VI
- present in work
- Tarikh-i Bal'ami
- relative
- Mithridates I of Parthia
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Encyclopedic overview
HouseHouse of Mihran FatherBahram Gushnasp ReligionZoroastrianism
Bahrām Chōbīn (Persian: بهرام چوبین) or Wahrām Chōbēn (died 591), also known by his epithet Mehrbandak ("servant of Mithra"), was a nobleman, general, and political leader of the late Sasanian Empire and briefly its ruler as Bahram VI (Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭, r. 590–591).
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