Mardansina (also spelled Mardan Sina) was an
Iranian
Iranian may refer to:
* Iran, a sovereign state
* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
* Iranian lan ...
nobleman from the
House of Mihran
The House of Mihrān or House of Mehrān (Middle Persian: 𐭬𐭨𐭥𐭠𐭭; new Persian: مهران), was a leading Iranian noble family (''šahrdārān''), one of the Seven Great Houses of the Sassanid Persian Empire which claimed descent f ...
—he was the son of
Bahram Gushnasp and thus the brother of the prominent Sasanian military leader
Bahram Chobin
Bahrām Chōbīn ( fa, بهرام چوبین) or Wahrām Chōbēn ( Middle Persian: ), also known by his epithet Mehrbandak ("servant of Mithra"), was a nobleman, general, and political leader of the late Sasanian Empire and briefly its ruler as ...
, who managed to overthrow the Sasanian king himself briefly in 590–591, but was eventually defeated and killed. Mardansina thereafter became the new leader of the rebel movement of Bahram Chobin, and later took part in the rebellion of
Vistahm
Vistahm or Bistam (also transliterated Wistaxm, pal, 𐭥𐭮𐭲𐭧𐭬 wsthm), was a Parthian dynast of the Ispahbudhan house, and maternal uncle of the Sasanian king of kings of Iran, Khosrow II (). Vistahm helped Khosrow regain his throne ...
(591–596 or 594/5–600).
Sources
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External links
* https://www.academia.edu/12102614/AN_HISTORIOGRAPHICAL_STUDY_of_AB%C5%AA_%E1%B8%A4AN%C4%AAFA_A%E1%B8%A4MAD_IBN_D%C4%80W%C5%AAD_IBN_WANAND_AL-D%C4%AANAWAR%C4%AA_S_Kit%C4%81b_al-A%E1%B8%ABb%C4%81r_al-%E1%B9%ACiw%C4%81l
Year of death unknown
6th-century births
6th-century Iranian people
House of Mihran
People from Ray, Iran
Rebellions against the Sasanian Empire
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