Bahram Chobin

Common card · No. 380752

Bahrām Chōbīn or Bahrām Chōbēn (Persian: بهرام چوبین) or Wahrām Chōbēn (died 591), also known by his epithet Mihrbandak ("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). Son of general Bahram Gushnasp and hailing from the noble House of Mihran, Bahram began his career as the governor of Ray, and was promoted to the army chief (spahbed) of the northwestern portions of the empire after capturing the Byzantine stronghold of Dara, fighting in the war of 572–591. After a massive Hephthalite-Turkic invasion of the eastern Sasanian domains in 588, he was appointed as the spahbed in Khorasan, beginning a campaign that ended in a decisive Iranian victory. Bahram earned an elevated position in Iran due to his noble descent, character, skills, and accomplishments. The Sasanian king (shah) Hormizd IV (r. 579–590) was already distrustful of Bahram and stripped the increasingly popular...

Read on Wikipedia · Image Classical Numismatic Group; [1], CC BY-SA 3.0