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Keikavus, the Glossary

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Keikavus (كيكاوس) was the ruler of the Ziyarid dynasty from ca.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 29 relations: Abu'l-Aswar Shavur ibn Fadl, Al-Hasan ibn al-Fairuzan, Ani, Anushirvan Sharaf al-Ma'ali, Arghush Farhadan, Arran (Caucasus), Emir, Ganja, Azerbaijan, Ghaznavids, Ghazni, Gilan province, Gilanshah, Kay Khosrow, Khosrow I, Mahmud of Ghazni, Makan ibn Kaki, Manuchihr, Mecca, Persian language, Persian literature, Qabus, Qabus-nama, Sasanian Empire, Seljuk dynasty, Shaddadids, Sunni Islam, Tabaristan, Tughril I, Ziyarid dynasty.

  2. 1087 deaths
  3. 11th-century Persian-language poets
  4. Ziyarid dynasty

Abu'l-Aswar Shavur ibn Fadl

Abu'l-Aswar or Abu'l-Asvar Shavur ibn Fadl ibn Muhammad ibn Shaddad was a member of the Shaddadid dynasty.

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Al-Hasan ibn al-Fairuzan

Al-Hasan ibn al-Fairuzan (الحسن بن الفیروزان) (fl. 10th century) was a Daylamite prince from the Firuzanid family.

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Ani

Ani (Անի; Ἄνιον, Ánion; Abnicum; Anı) is a ruined medieval Armenian city now situated in Turkey's province of Kars, next to the closed border with Armenia.

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Anushirvan Sharaf al-Ma'ali

Anushirvan Sharaf al-Ma'ali was the ruler of the Ziyarids (c. 1030–1050). Keikavus and Anushirvan Sharaf al-Ma'ali are 11th-century Iranian people, 11th-century monarchs in Asia and Ziyarid dynasty.

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Arghush Farhadan

Arghush Farhadan (Middle Persian: Āghosh Vehādhān) was a legendary king of Gilan, who lived during the time of the Kayanian king of Iran, Kay Khosrow.

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Arran (Caucasus)

Arran (Middle Persian form; Persian: اران or اردان), also known as Aran or Ardan, was a geographical name used in ancient and medieval times to signify a historically-Iranian region which lay within the triangle of land, lowland in the east and mountainous in the west, formed by the junction of the Kura and Aras rivers, including the highland and lowland Karabakh, Mil plain and parts of the Mughan plain.

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Emir

Emir (أمير, also transliterated as amir, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or ceremonial authority. The title has a long history of use in the Arab World, East Africa, West Africa, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

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Ganja, Azerbaijan

Ganja (Gəncə) is Azerbaijan's third largest city, with a population of around 335,600.

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Ghaznavids

The Ghaznavid dynasty (غزنویان Ġaznaviyān) or the Ghaznavid Empire was a Persianate Muslim dynasty and empire of Turkic mamluk origin, ruling at its greatest extent from the Oxus to the Indus Valley from 977 to 1186.

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Ghazni

Ghazni (غزنی, غزني), historically known as Ghaznayn (غزنين) or Ghazna (غزنه), also transliterated as Ghuznee, and anciently known as Alexandria in Opiana (Αλεξάνδρεια Ωπιανή), is a city in southeastern Afghanistan with a population of around 190,000 people.

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Gilan province

Gilan province (استان گیلان) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, in the northwest of the country.

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Gilanshah

Gilanshah (Persian: گیلانشاه) was the last ruler of the Ziyarid dynasty from ca. Keikavus and Gilanshah are 11th-century Iranian people, 11th-century monarchs in Asia and Ziyarid dynasty.

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Kay Khosrow

Kay Khosrow (کیخسرو) is a legendary king of Iran of Kayanian dynasty and a character in the Persian epic book, Shahnameh.

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Khosrow I

Khosrow I (also spelled Khosrau, Khusro or Chosroes; 𐭧𐭥𐭮𐭫𐭥𐭣𐭩; New Persian: خسرو), traditionally known by his epithet of Anushirvan (انوشيروان "the Immortal Soul"), was the Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 531 to 579.

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Mahmud of Ghazni

Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Sabuktigin (translit; 2 November 971 – 30 April 1030), usually known as Mahmud of Ghazni or Mahmud Ghaznavi (محمود غزنوی), was Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire, ruling from 998 to 1030. Keikavus and Mahmud of Ghazni are 11th-century monarchs in Asia.

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Makan ibn Kaki

Abu Mansur Makan ibn Kaki (died 25 December 940) was a Daylamite military leader active in northern Iran (esp. Tabaristan and western Khurasan) in the early 10th century.

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Manuchihr

Falak al-Ma'ali Manuchihr (فلک‌المعالی منوچهر), better known as Manuchihr (died c. 1031), was the ruler of the Ziyarids (1012 at the latest – c. 1031). Keikavus and Manuchihr are 11th-century Iranian people, 11th-century monarchs in Asia and Ziyarid dynasty.

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Mecca

Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Persian literature

Persian literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures.

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Qabus

Qabus ibn Wushmagir (full name: Abol-Hasan Qābūs ibn Wušmagīr ibn Ziyar Sams al-maʿālī, ابوالحسن قابوس بن وشمگیر بن زیار, شمس‌المعالی; (died 1012) (r. 977–981; 997–1012) was the Ziyarid ruler of Gurgan and Tabaristan in medieval Iran. Keikavus and Qabus are 11th-century Iranian people and Ziyarid dynasty.

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Qabus-nama

Qabus-nama or Qabus-nameh (variations: Qabusnamah, Qabousnameh, Ghabousnameh, or Ghaboosnameh, in Persian: کاووس‌نامه or قابوس‌نامه, "Book of Kavus"), Mirror of Princes, is a major work of Persian literature, from the eleventh century (c. 1080 AD).

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Sasanian Empire

The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.

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Seljuk dynasty

The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids (سلجوقیان Saljuqian, alternatively spelled as Seljuqs or Saljuqs), Seljuqs, also known as Seljuk Turks, Seljuk Turkomans "The defeat in August 1071 of the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes by the Turkomans at the battle of Malazgirt (Manzikert) is taken as a turning point in the history of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire." or the Saljuqids, was an Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persian culture in West Asia and Central Asia.

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Shaddadids

The Shaddadids were a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Kurdish origin.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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Tabaristan

Tabaristan or Tabarestan (Ṭabarestān, or Tabarestun, ultimately from Middle Persian:, Tapur(i)stān), was a mountainous region located on the Caspian coast of northern Iran.

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Tughril I

Abu Talib Muhammad Tughril ibn Mika'il (ابوطالبْ محمد طغرل بن میکائیل), better known as Tughril (طغرل / طغریل; also spelled Toghril / Tughrul), was a Turkoman"The defeat in August 1071 of the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes by the Turkomans at the battle of Malazgirt (Manzikert) is taken as a turning point in the history of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire. Keikavus and Tughril I are 11th-century monarchs in Asia.

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Ziyarid dynasty

The Ziyarid dynasty (زیاریان) was an Iranian dynasty of Gilaki origin that ruled Tabaristan from 931 to 1090 during the Iranian Intermezzo period.

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See also

1087 deaths

11th-century Persian-language poets

Ziyarid dynasty

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keikavus

Also known as Kai Kaus (11th century).