Kayanian dynasty information

The Kayanians (Persian: دودمان کیانیان; also Kays, Kayanids, Kaianids, Kiyani, Kayani, or Kiani) are a legendary dynasty of Persian/Iranian tradition and...

similar to the name Raja or Prince and are also known for the Kayanian Dynasty. Kayanian dynasty Gakhars Tribes and clans of the Pothohar Plateau Punjabi Muslims...

Jalayerid, Buyid Balkh; in legend, the governmental center of the Kayanian dynasty Bardsir; Banu Ilyas Basra; Jalayerid Bukhara; Samanid era Ctesiphon;...

the early centres of Zoroastrianism, and capital of the legendary Kayanian dynasty, Bactria is mentioned in the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great...

jurist Mohsin Akhtar Kayani (born 1970), Pakistani jurist Kayanian dynasty, a legendary dynasty of Persian/Iranian tradition and folklore All pages with...

non-Zoroastrian Sistan cycle texts, Vishtaspa is a loathsome ruler of the Kayanian dynasty who intentionally sends his eldest son to a certain death. In Greco-Roman...

Kay Khosrow (Persian: کیخسرو) is a legendary king of Iran of Kayanian dynasty and a character in the Persian epic book, Shahnameh. He was the son of the...

Dara I or Darab I was the penultimate king of the mythological Kayanian dynasty, ruling for 12 years. He was the son of Kay Bahman. Most accounts agree...

6th century Khwaday-Namag "Book of Lords", from which the tales of Kayanian dynasty as found in the Shahnameh derive. Semi-religious usage appears, for...

fantastical character in the Shahnameh book of poetry. He belonged to the Kayanian dynasty in Persian literature and mythology. Armin is the short form of "Āriya-bṛdāna"...

Chehrzad (Middle Persian: Humag, Avestan: Humāiiā) was a legendary Kayanian dynasty queen of Iran for around 32 years. She was daughter and perhaps also...

evidently associates him and the dynasty to the mythical Kayanian dynasty commemorated in the Avesta. His death led to a dynastic struggle between his two sons...

greatest king of the epigraphically unattested Pishdadian Dynasty (before the Kayanian dynasty). This role is already alluded to in Zoroastrian scripture...

successors of the Sasanians and the Kayanian dynasty. Yazid II of Shirvan was accepted as the last of the Mazyadid dynasty and first of the Kasranids. He fathered...

compatible with Islamic intellectual standards. Kayanian dynasty: The Kayanians are the second mythological dynasty of Iran, which in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh is...

suggest that Cyrus is Kay Khosrow, a legendary Persian king of the Kayanian dynasty and a character in Shahnameh, a Persian epic. Some scholars, however...

in Iranian traditions as Dara II, the last king of the mythological Kayanian dynasty, which reflected memories of the Achaemenids. Before his accession...

such stories as the romantic tale Vis and Rāmin and epic cycle of the Kayanian dynasty were part of the corpus of oral literature from Parthian times, although...

as both a faithful military general as well as king-maker for the Kayanian dynasty of Persia. As a young child, he slays the maddened white elephant of...

Dara II or Darab II was the last king of the mythological Kayanian dynasty, ruling between 14 and 16 years. He is generally identified with Darius III...

Ovan lake List of Iranian four-thousanders List of mountains in Iran Kayanian dynasty Koh e Alborz North, S.J.R., Guide to Biblical Iran, Rome 1956, p. 50...

village in Iran Rishi, an inspired poet of hymns from the Vedas Kayanian dynasty, a dynasty of Persian tradition and folklore which supposedly ruled after...

Shahnameh purports its existence during the mythological Zoroastrian Kayanian dynasty). In 329 BC Alexander the Great conquered the surrounding region, known...

thought his ancestor was, probably the Achaemenids or the legendary Kayanian dynasty. During the reign of Shapur II, the title of "the divine Mazda-worshipping...

Iranians starting with the Pishdadian dynasty who is followed by the Kayanian dynasty. The last of the Kayanians is Vishtaspa, an early convert to Zoroastrianism...

the Kayanian dynasty. This glory is first bestowed by Ahura Mazda upon the Pishdadian dynasty, the mythical predecessors of the Kayanian dynasty. Yet...

the capital of the Kayanian dynasty kingdom which coincides with the Yaz II/A (10th-8th century BC), while date of the late Kayanian capital Balkh to Yaz...

Θraētaona. Θraētaona establishes the legendary line of rulers called the Kayanian dynasty. Since all sources on Persian mythology, both from indigenous texts...

Gashasb, and his ancestry back to Sasan V then through Sasan to the Kayanian dynasty, Keyumars, and finally to Mahābād, the primordial figure who appeared...