House of Mihran

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The House of Mihrān was an Iranian noble family, one of the Seven Great Houses of the Sassanid Empire which claimed descent from the earlier Arsacid dynasty. First mentioned in Res Gestae Divi Saporis (Ka'ba-i Zartosht), the mid-3rd-century C.E. trilingual inscription concerning the political, military, and religious activities of Shapur I, the second Sassanid king of Iran, the family remained the hereditary "margraves" of Ray and produced notable generals including Bahram Chobin who led a coup against Khosrau II and briefly usurped the crown from 590 to 591.[1]

In the course of the 4th century, the purported branches of this family acquired the crowns of three Caucasian polities: Iberia (Chosroids), Gogarene and Caucasian Albania/Gardman (Mihranids).[2]

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  1. ^ A. Sh. Shahbazi. Bahrām. Encyclopædia Iranica Online Edition. Accessed October 15, 2007.
  2. ^ Toumanoff, Cyril. Introduction to Christian Caucasian History, II: States and Dynasties of the Formative Period. Traditio 17 (1961), p. 38.
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