Khosrow ( fa, خسرو; also spelled Khusrow, Khusraw, Khusrau, Khusro, Chosro or Osro) may refer to: *

Khosrow (word) Khosrow is a male given name of Iranian origin, most notably held by Khosrow I of Sassanid Persia, but also by other people in various locations and languages. In some times and places, the word has come to mean "king" or "ruler", and in some case ...

, a given name also used as a title

Iranian rulers

* Khosrow I, Sasanian ruler 531–579 * Khosrow II, Sasanian ruler 590–628 *

Khosrow III Khosrow III (also spelled Khosrau, Khusro or Xosrow; pal, 𐭧𐭥𐭮𐭫𐭥𐭣𐭩; New Persian: ) was a Sasanian rival claimant who briefly ruled a part of Khorasan for a few months in 630. Name "Khosrow" is the New Persian variant of his ...

, Sasanian ruler 630 *

Khosrow IV Khosrow IV was a Sasanian claimant to the throne who ruled Susa and its surroundings from ca. 630 to 636. Little is known about his rule, he appears to have ruled during a time of upheaval and chaos across the Sasanian Empire the 7th century has ...

, Sasanian ruler 631–633 *

Khosrow (son of Bahram IV) Khosrow ( pal, 𐭧𐭥𐭮𐭫𐭥𐭣𐭩), was briefly Sasanian King of Kings of Iran in 420. Biography Khosrow was the son of Bahram IV (), the sixteenth king (''shah'') of the Sasanian Empire. Since the death of the powerful Sasanian shah ...

, 420 *

Khusrau Shah Khusrau Shah (also spelled Khosrau Shah, Khosrow Shah, and Khusraw Shah) was the last king of the Justanids from 972 to ca. 1004. He was the son and successor of Manadhar. The words " Khosrow" and "Shah" are both Persian words that mean "king". ...

, sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire 1157–1160 *

Khusrau Malik Abu'l-Muzaffar Khusrau Malik ibn Khusrau-Shah ( fa, ابوالمظفر خسروملک بن خسروشاه), better simply known as Khusrau Malik (; also spelled Khosrow), was the last Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire, ruling from 1160 to 1186. He w ...

, last Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire, 1160–1186 *

Osroes I Osroes I (also spelled Chosroes I or Khosrow I; xpr, 𐭇𐭅𐭎𐭓𐭅 ''Husrōw'') was a Parthian contender, who ruled the western portion of the Parthian Empire from 109 to 129, with a one-year interruption. For the whole of his reign he co ...

, c. 109–129 * Osroes II, c. 190

Kings of Armenia

* Khosrov I of Armenia, 198–217 * Khosrov II of Armenia, c. 252 *

Khosrov III the Small Khosrov III the Small ( hy, Խոսրով Գ Կոտակ, ''Khosrov III Kotak''; ''Kotak'' means "little, short, small") was the king of Arsacid Armenia . Khosrov was the son and successor of King Tiridates III. Khosrov received the epithet ''K ...

, 330–339 *

Khosrov IV of Armenia Khosrov IV ( hy, Խոսրով Դ) was a noble of the Arsacid dynasty who served as the Sasanian client king of Armenia from 385 until 389. Origins The exact origins of Khosrov IV are unknown. The Armenian historians of the 5th century, Faustus ...

, 387–389

Other people

Given name

* Khosrov of Andzev (fl. 10th century), Armenian writer * Khosrow Jahanbani (1941–2014), Iranian royal *

Khusrau Khan Khusrau Khan was the Sultan of Delhi for around two months in 1320. Originally from the Gujarat region, he was captured by the Delhi army during Alauddin Khalji's conquest of Malwa in 1305. After being brought to Delhi as a slave, he was conv ...

, Sultan of Delhi for four months in 1320 *

Khusrau Mirza Khusrau Mirza (16 August 1587 – 26 January 1622) was the eldest son of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir and his first wife, Shah Begum. He was beloved of his grandfather, Mughal Emperor Akbar and his grandmother, Mariam-uz-Zamani. The young ...

(1587–1622), son of Mughal emperor Jahangir *

Khosrov bey Sultanov Khosrov bey Alipasha bey oghlu Sultanov ( az, Xosrov bəy Əlipaşa bəy oğlu Sultanov; 1879 – 1943), also spelled as Khosrow Sultanov, was an Azerbaijani statesman, General Governor of Karabakh and Minister of Defense of the Azerbaijani Democ ...

(1879–1947), Azerbaijani statesman *

Khosrov Harutyunyan Khosrov Meliki Harutyunyan ( hy, Խոսրով Մելիքի Հարությունյան; May 30, 1948) is an Armenian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Armenia from 30 July 1992 until 2 February 1993. Harutyunyan is the Chairman of the ...

(b. 1948), Armenian politician

Middle name

Amir Khosrow Afshar Amir Khosrow Afshar (1919–1999; fa, امیرخسرو افشار قاسملو) was an Iranian diplomat, who served as the minister of foreign affairs of Iran during the Shah era from 1978 to 1979. Biography Born in 1919 in Tehran, Afshar was a ...

(1919–1999), Iranian diplomat and politician

Surname

Amir Khusrau Abu'l Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau (1253–1325 AD), better known as Amīr Khusrau was an Indo-Persian Sufi singer, musician, poet and scholar who lived under the Delhi Sultanate. He is an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian sub ...

(1253–1325), Sufi poet (in Persian language), musician, and scholar of India * Kay Khosrow, an Iranian legendary king

Places

* Khosrow, Iran (disambiguation), several places *

Khosrov Khosrov is a town in the Ararat Province of Armenia. See also * Khosrov Forest State Reserve * Ararat Province Ararat ( hy, Արարատ, ), is a province ('' marz'') of Armenia. Its capital and largest city is the town of Artashat. The pro ...

, Armenia *

Khosrov Forest State Reserve Khosrov Forest State Reserve ( hy, Խոսրովի անտառ պետական արգելոց), is a nature reserve in Ararat Province of Armenia. The reserve is one of the oldest protected areas in the world having a history of about 1700 years. ...

, in Armenia *

Xosrov Xosrov (also, Khosrov) is a village and municipality in the Agdash Rayon of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinen ...

, Azerbaijan

Other uses

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Khosrow and Shirin Khosrow and Shirin ( fa, خسرو و شیرین) is the title of a famous tragic romance by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209), who also wrote Layla and Majnun. It tells a highly elaborated fictional version of the story of the love ...

'', a tragic romance by Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi *

Khusrau (crater) Khusrau is an impact crater on the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Khusrau was first observed in '' Cassini'' images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 3.8° South Latitude, 185.5° West Lon ...

, on Saturn's moon Enceladus