Shapur (name)
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Shāpūr (Persian: شاپور, meaning son of the king) or Sapor is a Persian male given name. It is first attested in Middle Persian as Shahpuhr. The Armenian form is Շապուհ Šapuh.
[edit] Sasanian kings
Shapur can refer to one of three Sassanid kings:
- Shapur I (r. 241–272)
- Shapur II (r. 309–379)
- Shapur III (r. 383–388)
[edit] Other people
Shapur may also refer to:
- Shapur Bakhtiar (1915–1991), former Prime Minister of Iran
- Shapur ibn Sahl, a ninth century Persian Christian physician from the Academy of Gundishapur
- Sapor of Bet-Nicator was the Christian bishop of Bet-Nicator
- Shapoor Zadran, an Afghan cricketer
- Shapoor Reporter, a British intelligence agent
[edit] Other
- Shapur, a character in Nizami Ganjavi's tale Khusraw and Shirin
[edit] See also
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