Shapur of Ray
Shapur of Ray was a Sasanian military officer from the Mihran family. The city Ray in his name was the seat of the Mihran family.[1]
According to Abu Hanifa Dinawari (d. 896), Shapur was the governor of the two Mesopotamian districts of Khutarniyah and Babylonia during Kavad I's reign.[1] According to al-Tabari, he held the rank of "Supreme Commander of the Land" (iṣbahbadh al-bilād). Ferdowsi records him being recalled by Kavad I to destroy the powerful Sukhra of Karen family, who was also Shapur Razi's rival. Shapur Razi defeated and captured Sukhra in Shiraz. The Mihran-Karen rivalry became proverbial in the contemporary Sasanian society, as reflected in the expression "Sukhra's wind has died away, and a wind belonging to Mihran has now started to blow".[1]
He briefly served as the governor (marzban) of Persian Armenia from 483 to 484.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Pourshariati 2008, pp. 80–81.
- ^ Grousset, René (1947). Histoire de l'Arménie des origines à 1071 (in French). Paris: Payot.
Sources
- Pourshariati, Parvaneh (2008). Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-645-3.
Preceded by Zarmihr Hazarwuxt | Marzban of Persian Armenia 483–484 | Succeeded by Vahan Mamikonian |
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- Veh Mihr Shapur
- Vasak Siwni
- Adhur Hormizd
- Adhur Gushnasp
- Sahak II Bagratuni
- Shapur Mihran
- Vahan Mamikonian
- Zarmihr Hazarwuxt
- Shapur of Ray
- Vahan Mamikonian
- Vard Mamikonian
- Unknown
- Mjej I Gnuni
- Gushnasp Bahram
- Tan-Shapur
- Varazdat
- Chihor-Vishnasp
- Vardan III Mamikonian
- Golon Mihran
- Vardan III Mamikonian
- Tamkhosrow
- Varaz Vzur
- Pahlav
- Frahat
- Hrartin
- Mushegh II Mamikonian
- Vindatakan
- Nakhvefaghan
- Merakbout
- Yazden
- Boutmah
- Smbat IV Bagratuni
- Shahrayeanpet
- Parshenazdat
- Namdar-Gushnasp
- Shahraplakan
- Rhahzadh
- Byzantine rule
- Varaztirots II Bagratuni
- Mjej II Gnuni
- David Saharuni
- Direct Sasanian rule
- Theodore Rshtuni
- Varaztirots II Bagratuni
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