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  Bahram V of Persia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bahram V, King of Persia (421–438), also called "Bahram Gur", son of Yazdegerd I of Persia (399–421), after whose sudden death (or assassination) he gained the crown against the opposition of the grandees by the help of al-Mundhir, the Arabic dynast of al-Hirah.
In 427 Bahram V crushed an invasion in the east by the nomadic Hephthalites, extending his influence into Central Asia, where his portrait survived for centuries on the coinage of Bukhara (in modern Uzbekistan).
Bahram V deposed the vassal King of the Persian part of Armenia and made it a province.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bahram V of Persia
Bahram V, king of Persia (420-439), also called "Bahram Gur",son of Yazdegerd I, after whose sudden death (or assassination) he gained the crown against the opposition of the grandees by the help of al-Mondhir, the Arabic dynast of Hira.
Bahram's mother was Soshandukht, the daughter of the Jewish Exilarch.
Bahram deposed the vassal king of the Persian part of Armenia and made it a province.
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 decendants of Papak of Persia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
of_Persia, Kavadh I [11477] (Kobad, Cabades) Shah of Persia, 488-531
of_Persia, Khusrau II_Parves (Chosroes the Conquerer) [11474] Shah of Persia, 590-628
of_Persia, Yezdegerd I [11481] Shah of Persia, 399-420
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Persia
Persia proper is bounded on the north by Transcaucasia, the Caspian Sea, and Russian Turkestan; on the south by the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf; it is over one-fifth as large as the United States (excluding Alaska) and twice as large as Germany, having an area of about 642,000 square miles.
In 1874 he was consecrated, in Paris, Archbishop of Heraclea, and assumed the Administrator of the Diocese of Ispahan, thus withdrawing the Persian Mission from the jurisdiction of the Apostolic Delegation of Mesopotamia.
On his arrival in Persia, Mgr Cluzel was immediately acknowledged by the shah, decorated with the insignia of the Lion and Sun, and officially confirmed, by a special imperial firman, as the representative of the Father of the Faithful.
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 Timeline Persia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He failed in an attempted attack on Persia and was deserted by the Egyptians and Greek mercenaries.
The Sassanid kings of Persia (who had superseded the Parthians in the Empire of Iran) secured the lion's share of the spoils, while the Romans only received a strip of country on the western border which gave them Erzeroum and Diyarbekir for their frontier fortresses.
1828 Russia conquered the Armenian provinces of Persia, and this brought within her frontier the Monastery of Etchmiadzin, in the Khanate of Erivan, which was the seat of the Katholikos of All the Armenians.
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 History Forum > Much Ado About Nothing
Bahram was raised in Hira, the capital of the Arab Lakhmid empire, an ally of Persia at that time.
Bahram gave himself unimpressed by the news and, to the surprise of his surroundings, set out for his hunting trip nevertheless.
Bahram V was, however, a popular ruler, despite the fact that he surpressed his people- they were used to that by now.
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 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of April 9
This won for him the friendship of King Bahram V (Varannes) of Persia, who is said to have forthwith ceased to persecute his Christian subjects (Benedictines, Encyclopedia).
Born in Savigliano, Italy, in 1326; died in Turino, Italy, in 1374; beatified in 1868.
At 15, he was received into the monastery of Savigliano, was ordained in 1351, and almost immediately was engaged in combatting the heresies of the Lombards.
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