Shabankara
Sign in to saveShabankara or Shwankara (, ; was an Iranian tribe. They claimed descent from the mythical Iranian king Manuchehr and from the founder of the Sasanian Empire, Ardashir I. They had been deported to eastern Fars from Isfahan and Syria by the Buyid Shahanshah 'Adud al-Dawla (r. 949–983). The dynasty's capital was Ij (Ig) and was divided in six districts: Zarkān, Iṣṭabānān, Burk-Tārum-K̲h̲ayra, Nayriz, Kurm-Rūnīz-Lār, and Darabjird. The tribe had the following subdivisions: Ismāʿīlī, the Rāmānī, the Karzuwī, the Masʿūdī and the S̲h̲akānī who were all herders and warriors.
Key facts
- Former country.conventional_long_name
- Šwānkāra
- Former country.common_name
- Shabankara
- Former country.native_name
- شوانکارە
- Former country.image_map
- Shabankara.png
- Former country.capital
- Ij (Ig)
- Former country.religion
- Sunni Islam
- Former country.government_type
- Monarchy (princely confederation)
- Former country.leader_name2
- Ardashir
- Former country.year_end
- 1424
- Former country.year_start
- 1030
- Former country.image_map_caption
- Map of Iran during Anarchy Era 1328-1384 AD. Shabankara in purple.
- Former country.title_leader
- Amir/Malik
- Former country.year_leader1
- 1030–1078
- Former country.leader1
- Fadluya
- Former country.year_leader2
- c.1310 (?)-1355
- Former country.leader2
- Ardashir
- Former country.event_end
- Shabankara overthrown by Timurids
- Former country.p1
- Buyid dynasty
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Shabankara or Shwankara (, ; was an Iranian tribe. They claimed descent from the mythical Iranian king Manuchehr and from the founder of the Sasanian Empire, Ardashir I. They had been deported to eastern Fars from Isfahan and Syria by the Buyid Shahanshah 'Adud al-Dawla (r. 949–983). The dynasty's capital was Ij (Ig) and was divided in six districts: Zarkān, Iṣṭabānān, Burk-Tārum-K̲h̲ayra, Nayriz, Kurm-Rūnīz-Lār, and Darabjird. The tribe had the following subdivisions: Ismāʿīlī, the Rāmānī, the Karzuwī, the Masʿūdī and the S̲h̲akānī who were all herders and warriors.
There is a contemporary Kurdish tribe named Shabankara in Kermanshah province. Abu Tahir ibn Muhammad, a descendant from the Shabankara went on to found the Kurdish Hazaraspid dynasty in the 12th century.
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