Farrokhzād ( fa, فرّخزاد, link=no, meaning ''descendant of Farrokh'' or ''born with luck and happiness'') may refer to the following:
People
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Rostam Farrokhzād
Rostam Farrokhzād ( fa, رستم فرخزاد) was an Iranian dynast from the Ispahbudhan family, who served as the ''spahbed'' ("military marshal") of the northwestern quarter (''kust'') of Adurbadagan during the reign of Boran () and Yazdeger ...
, the 7th-century commander of
Sasanian
The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of Iranians (, ) and also referred to by historians as the Neo-Persian Empire, was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th-8th centuries AD. Named ...
forces who lost the battle of Qadisiyya to Arab Muslims
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Farrukhzad
Farrukhzad ( pal, script=Latn, Farrūkhzādag; New Persian: ), was an Iranian aristocrat from the House of Ispahbudhan and the founder of the Bavand dynasty, ruling from 651 to 665. Originally a powerful servant of the Sasanian king Khosrow II (r. ...
, a 7th-century powerful Iranian aristocrat from the
House of Ispahbudhan
The House of Ispahbudhan or the House of Aspahbadh was one of the seven Parthian clans of the Sasanian Empire. Like the Sasanians, they claimed descent from the Achaemenid dynasty. They also claimed descent from the legendary Kayanid figure Isfa ...
, who established the
Bavand dynasty
The Bavand dynasty () (also spelled Bavend), or simply the Bavandids, was an Iranian dynasty that ruled in parts of Tabaristan (present-day Mazandaran province) in what is now northern Iran from 651 until 1349, alternating between outright inde ...
in
Tabaristan
Tabaristan or Tabarestan ( fa, طبرستان, Ṭabarestān, or mzn, تبرستون, Tabarestun, ultimately from Middle Persian: , ''Tapur(i)stān''), was the name applied to a mountainous region located on the Caspian coast of northern Iran. ...
, ruling from 651 to 665.
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Forough Farrokhzad
Forugh Farrokhzad ( fa, فروغ فرخزاد; 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast,* feminist author.Forugh Farrokhzad died at the age ...
, a 20th-century Iranian poet
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Fereydoun Farrokhzad
Fereydoun Farrokhzad ( fa, فریدون فرخزاد; October 7, 1938 – August 3, 1992) was an Iranian showman, host, poet, actor, political activist, singer, humanitarian, and writer. He is best known for his television variety show ''The Silv ...
, brother of Forough Farrokhzad and an Iranian TV host and political opposition figure who was murdered in 1992
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Pooran Farrokhzad
Pouran Farrokhzad ( Persian: پوران فرخزاد, February 1932 – 29 December 2016) was an Iranian writer, poet, playwright, and encyclopedist. She was author of the ''Encyclopedia of Women Culture Makers in Iran and in the World'' which ...
, sister of Forough and an Iranian novelist
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Athena Farrokhzad, a Swedish-Iranian poet, playwright, translator and literary critic
Places
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Farrokhzad, Khuzestan, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
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Farrokhzad, West Azerbaijan, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
See also
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Farrokh (disambiguation)
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