Drachm of Shapur IV minted during the reign of his father Yazdegerd I
King of Armenia
Reign
415-420
Predecessor
Vramshapuh
Successor
Artaxias IV
Shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire
Reign
420
Predecessor
Yazdegerd I
Successor
Khosrau the Usurper
Born
Persia
Died
420 Ctesiphon
House
House of Sasan
Father
Yazdegerd I
Mother
Shushandukht
Religion
Zoroastrianism
Shapur IV (Middle Persian: 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩Šāhpuhr), was king of Sasanian Armenia from 415 to 420, who briefly ruled the Sasanian Empire in 420.
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(shahanshah) of Iran from 399 to 420. A son of Shapur III (r. 383–388), he succeeded his brother Bahram IV (r. 388–399) after the latter's assassination...
after some conspiring nobles had cut its ropes. His son Bahram IV succeeded him. "Shapur" was a popular name in Sasanian Iran, being used by three Sasanian...
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(shahanshah) of Iran from 388 to 399. He was likely the son and successor of Shapur III (r. 383–388). Before his accession to the throne, Bahram served as governor...
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seizing a Parthian soldier; Shapur impaling the Parthian minister Dad-windad with his lance; and Ardashir I ousting Artabanus IV. The second relief, conceivably...
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ISBN 978-0-14-044908-2 Shahbazi, A. Shapur (1988). "Bahrām II". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. III, Fasc. 5. pp. 514–522. Shahbazi, Shapur (1994), "Darius I the Great"...
July 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2011. Bosworth, C. E. (1990). "CENTRAL ASIA iv. In the Islamic Period up to the Mongols". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia...
BC), the Persian Artaxerxes III (r. 358–338 BC), the Seleucids Antiochus IV Epiphanes (r. 175–164 BC) and Demetrius I Soter (r. 161–150 BC) and the Armenian...
imposing monumental structures (the most characteristic of these is Level IV of Eanna), the appearance of state institutions, and the expansion of the...
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"acquired by Shapur", or from Gund-dēz-i Shāpūr, means "military fortress of Shapur", or from Weh-Andiyok-Shāpūr, "Better-than-Antioch of Shapur". It is known...
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Archived from the original on 2019-01-01. Retrieved 2019-02-10. Shahbazi, A. Shapur (1986). "Army i. Pre-Islamic Iran". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. II, Fasc...
Uruk and Lagash. The Akkadian Period is contemporary with EB IV (in Israel), EB IVA and EJ IV (in Syria), and EB IIIB (in Turkey). The relative order of...
tradition, Shapur I is said to have spent his twilight years in the city, although this tradition is uncertain and perhaps refers more to Shapur II. Under...
religious and cultural practices, the rule of Antiochus IV introduced significant changes. Antiochus IV instigated a bidding process for the High Priest position—this...
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