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Also known as Bahram VI Chobin, Bahram VI, Wahrām Chōbēn, Wahrām Chōbē, Bahrām Chōbīn, Mihrevandak, Mihrbandak, Bahram Chubin

Sasanian general and political leader (died 591)

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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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