Sapor

Related Category: Iranian History: Biographies

see Shapur I, Shapur II, Shapur III.

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Shapur I - d.272, king of Persia son and successor of Ardashir I, of the Sassanid, or Sassanian, dynasty. He was an able warrior king. Although he was defeated by the Roman emperor, Gordian III, in 242, he hal...