Rambehesht
Rambehesht (Middle Persian: Rām Vahišt, New Persian: رامبهشت), also known as Denag (Middle Persian: Dēnag, New Persian: دینگ) was a 3rd-century Sasanian noblewoman from the Bazrangi family and the wife of Sasan, the eponymous ancestor of the Sasanian Dynasty (ruled 224-651) in Persia. She was the mother of Pabag and the grandmother of Ardashir I, the founder of the Sasanian Empire.{{sfn|Gignoux|1994|p=282}} According to Tabari she "possessed beauty and perfection".{{harv|Tabari|1999}} page 4.{{harv|Frye|1990}}
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- {{Encyclopaedia Iranica | volume = 7 | fascicle = 3 | article = Dēnag | last = Gignoux | first = Philippe | author-link = | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/denag | page = 282}}
- {{citation|title=The Sāsānids, the Byzantines, the Lakhmids, and Yemen|work=Tarikh-e Tabari|volume=5|translator=C. E. Bosworth|translator-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth|edition=SUNY series in Near Eastern studies|last=Tabari|isbn=0-7914-4355-8|publisher=SUNY Press|pages=458|year=1999}}
- {{citation|title=BĀZRANGĪ|last=Frye|first=R. N.|work=Encyclopaedia Iranica|volume=4|place=New York, London|year=1990}}
Category:3rd-century Iranian people