Zavara or Zavareh ( fa, زواره) is an Iranian hero in
Ferdowsi's
Shahnameh
The ''Shahnameh'' or ''Shahnama'' ( fa, شاهنامه, Šāhnāme, lit=The Book of Kings, ) is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50 ...
. He was brother to
Rostam
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, death_place = Kabulistan
, death_cause = With the conspiracy of his half-brother Shaghad, he fell into a we ...
and the son of
Zal and played an important role in the Iranian invasion of Turan after the murder of
Siyavash by the command of the Turanian king,
Afrasiyab. It is said that Zavara killed the Turanian prince Sokhra in the way that the Turanians killed the Iranian prince Siyavash.
Zavara was killed by his half-brother,
Shaghad.
References
Shahnameh characters
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Kayanians