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

Khosrow (name) Khosrow is a male given name of Iranian languages, Iranian origin, most notably held by Khosrow I of Sasanian Empire, Sassanid Persia, but also by other people in various locations and languages. In some times and places, and in some cases has bee ...

, a male given name also used as a title

Iranian rulers

Khosrow I Khosrow I (also spelled Khosrau, Khusro or Chosroes; ), traditionally known by his epithet of Anushirvan ("the Immortal Soul"), was the Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 531 to 579. He was the son and successor of Kavad I (). Inheriting a rei ...

, Sasanian ruler 531–579 *

Khosrow II Khosrow II (spelled Chosroes II in classical sources; and ''Khosrau''), commonly known as Khosrow Parviz (New Persian: , "Khosrow the Victorious"), is considered to be the last great Sasanian King of Kings (Shahanshah) of Iran, ruling from 590 ...

, Sasanian ruler 590–628 *

Khosrow III Khosrow III (also spelled Khosrau, Khusro or Xosrow; ; 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 name used by scholars; his origin ...

, Sasanian ruler 630 *

Khosrow IV Khosrow IV was a Sasanian claimant to the throne who ruled Susa and its surroundings from 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 Sasanian Empire (), ...

, Sasanian ruler 631–633 *

Khosrow (son of Bahram IV) Khosrow (), was briefly the King of Kings of the Sasanian Empire 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 Shapur II (), the aristo ...

, 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". R ...

, sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire 1157–1160 *

Khusrau Malik Abu'l-Muzaffar Khusrau Malik ibn Khusrau-Shah (), better known simply as Khusrau Malik (; also spelled Khosrow), was the last Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire, ruling from 1160 to 1186. He was the son and successor of Khusrau Shah (r. 1157–1160) ...

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

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

, c. 109–129 * Osroes II, c. 190

Kings of Armenia

* Khosrov I of Armenia, 198–217 *

Khosrov II of Armenia Khosrov II (known in Roman sources as Chosroes, died 258), also known as Khosrov the Brave was an Armenian king from the Arsacid dynasty in the mid-third century. Khosrov II was the son of Tiridates II, King of Armenia, and followed his father ...

, c. 252 *

Khosrov III the Small Khosrov III the Small (''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 ''Kotak'' because he was a man of sho ...

, 330–339 *

Khosrov IV of Armenia Khosrov IV (; died 415 or 418), called Khosrov III in some sources, was a noble of the Arsacid dynasty who served as the Sasanian client king of Armenia from 384/385 until 389 and again from 414 to 415 or 417 to 418. He was appointed king of Arme ...

, 387–389

Other people

Given name

* Khosrov of Andzev (fl. 10th century), Armenian writer *

Khosrow Jahanbani Khosrow Jahanbani (27 February 1941 – 16 April 2014) was the son of Iranian general Amanullah Jahanbani and second husband of Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi. Early life Jahanbani was born on 27 February 1941 and was the youngest son of Iranian gener ...

(1941–2014), Iranian royal * Khusrau Khan, 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. Being Jahangir's eldest son, he was the heir-apparent to his father but Jahangir favoured his son Khurram Mi ...

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

Cosroe Dusi Cosroe Dusi (July 28, 1808 – October 9, 1859) was an Italian painter in the Neoclassical style, active for many years in St Petersburg, Russia, painting mainly sacred and historical subjects. Dusi was nicknamed by his contemporaries the "moder ...

(1808–1859), Italian painter *

Khosrov bey Sultanov Khosrov bey Alipasha bey oghlu Sultanov (, ; 1879 – 1943), also spelled as Khosrow Sultanov, was an Azerbaijani statesman, General Governor of Karabakh and Minister of Defense of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic. Early life Major General ...

(1879–1947), Azerbaijani statesman *

Khosrov Harutyunyan Khosrov Meliki Harutyunyan (; born 30 May 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 Christian Democratic Union of Armenia A Chris ...

(b. 1948), Armenian politician *

Khosrow Behbehani Khosrow Behbehani is a professor of engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. Behbehani earned his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Louisiana State University, a master's degree in systems engineering from Georgia Ins ...

, professor of engineering

Middle name

Amir Khosrow Afshar Amir Khosrow Afshar (1919–1999; ) was an Iranian diplomat who served as the minister of foreign affairs of Iran during the Pahlavi era from 1978 to 1979. Biography Born in 1919 in Tehran, Afshar was a career diplomat. At the beginning of the 1 ...

(1919–1999), Iranian diplomat and politician * Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri (1942-2023), Iranian-American wrestler and actor

Surname

Amir Khusrau Abu'l Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau (1253 – 1325 AD), better known as Amīr Khusrau, sometimes spelled as, Amir Khusrow or Amir Khusro, was an Indo-Persian Sufi singer, musician, poet and scholar, who lived during the period of the Delhi Sult ...

(1253–1325), Sufi poet (in Persian language), musician, and scholar of India *

Kay Khosrow Kay Khosrow () is a legendary king of Iran of Kayanian dynasty and a character in the Persian epic book ''Shahnameh''. He was the son of the Iranian prince Siavash who married princess Farangis of Turan while in exile. Before Kay Khosrow wa ...

, an Iranian legendary king

Places

Khosrow, Iran (disambiguation) Khosrow () in Iran may refer to: * Khosrow, Andika, Khuzestan Province * Khosrow Beyg, Markazi Province * Khosrow Beyk Rural District, in Markazi Province * Khosrow, Tehran * Khosrow Castle, in Ardabil County, Ardabil Province {{geodis ...

, several places *

Khosrov Khosrov is a town in the Ararat Province of Armenia. See also * Khosrov Forest State Reserve * Ararat Province Ararat (, ) is a administrative divisions of Armenia, province (''marz (territorial entity), marz'') of Armenia. Its capital and la ...

, Armenia *

Khosrov Forest State Reserve Khosrov Forest State Reserve () 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 1,700 years. It was founded in the 4th century (334–338) by the order o ...

, in Armenia *

Xosrov Xosrov (also, Khosrov) is a village and municipality in the Agdash Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,783. The municipality consists of the villages of Xosrov and Sadavat Sadavat is a village in the Agdash Rayon of Azerbaijan ...

, Azerbaijan

Other uses

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Khosrow and Shirin ''Khosrow and Shirin'' () is a romantic Epic poetry, epic poem by the Persians, Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209). It is the second work of his set of five poems known collectively as Khamsa of Nizami, ''Khamsa''. It tells a highly el ...

'', 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