Mihrak
{{Short description|Early 3rd-century Parthian dynast}}
File:Ardashir executes Mihrak.jpg illustration of Ardashir I about to execute Mihrak.]]
Mihrak was a Parthian dynast, who was the ruler of Abarsas and Jahrom in the early 3rd-century. He was the son of Anoshagzatan, and belonged to a family which traced their descent back to the Kayanids. He was defeated and killed in ca. 222 during a clash with the first Sasanian king Ardashir I (r. 224-242). Mihrak had a daughter named Gurdzad (probably Khwarranzem), who later married Ardashir's son Shapur and bore him Hormizd.
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- {{cite book | last = Al-Tabari | first = Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir | authorlink=Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari | editor1 = Ehsan Yar-Shater | title = The History of Al-Ṭabarī. | volume = 40 vols. | publisher = State University of New York Press | location = Albany, NY | date = 1985–2007 }}
- {{cite encyclopedia|last=Miri|first=Negin|authorlink=|title=Historical Geography of Fars during the Sasanian Period|url=http://www.sasanika.org/wp-content/uploads/e-sasanika6-Miri.pdf|year=2009|publisher=University of Sydney|isbn=|encyclopedia=Sasanika|pages=1–65|access-date=2016-03-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404120535/http://www.sasanika.org/wp-content/uploads/e-sasanika6-Miri.pdf|archive-date=2016-04-04|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite encyclopedia | article = JAHROM | last = Ja'fari | first = Shiva | authorlink = | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/jahrom | editor-last = | editor-first = | editor-link = | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XIV, Fasc. 4 | pages = 392–395 | location = | publisher = | year = 2008 | isbn = }}
- {{cite book|last=Pourshariati|first=Parvaneh|title=Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran|location=London and New York|publisher=I.B. Tauris|year=2008|isbn=978-1-84511-645-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-xtAAAAMAAJ}}
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Category:3rd-century Iranian people
Category:History of Fars province
Category:Monarchs killed in action
Category:3rd-century monarchs in the Middle East
Category:Vassal rulers of the Parthian Empire
Category:Year of birth unknown
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