Wuzurg framadār (Middle Persian: LBʾ plmtʾr,[1] meaning "the grand commander or the grand commanding body") was a Sasanian office which was equivalent to the office of Grand Vizier in the later Islamic period.[2]
List
edit- Abarsam, active during the reign of Ardashir I.[3][2]
- Khosrow Yazdegerd under Yazdegerd I[2]
- Mihr Narseh under Yazdegerd I and Bahram V[2]
- Suren Pahlav under Bahram V, possibly Mihr Narseh's direct successor[2]
- Bozorgmehr under Kavad I and Khosrow I
- Izadgushasp under Khosrow I
- Piruz Khosrow under Kavadh II and Ardashir III
- Mah-Adhur Gushnasp under Ardashir III
- Farrukh Hormizd under Boran
Sources
edit- ^ "Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica".
- ^ a b c d e Chaumont, Marie-Louise (2000). "FRAMADĀR". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume X/2: Forūḡī–Fruit. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 125–126. ISBN 978-0-933273-41-2.
- ^ E. Yarshater, “Abarsam,” Encyclopædia Iranica, I/1, pp. 67-68; available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abarsam (accessed on 10 January 2014).
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