Bagha Qaghan was the seventh ruler (587–589) of the
Turkic Kaganate. He may have been
the 'great kaghan' that was killed with an arrow by Persian commander
Bahrām 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 B ...
during
First Perso-Turkic War
The First Perso-Turkic War was fought during 588–589 between the Sasanian Empire and Hephthalite principalities and its lord the Göktürks. The conflict started with the invasion of the Sasanian Empire by the Turks and ended with a decisive ...
.
He is given as ''Chǔluóhóu'' (处罗侯) in Chinese records, and as Šāwa, Sāva, or Sāba in
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 ...
-based sources.
He was
hunchback
Kyphosis is an abnormally excessive convex curvature of the spine as it occurs in the thoracic and sacral regions. Abnormal inward concave ''lordotic'' curving of the cervical and lumbar regions of the spine is called lordosis. It can result ...
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Göktürk rulers
Monarchs killed in action
589 deaths
Deaths by arrow wounds
6th-century monarchs in Asia
Year of birth unknown
Ashina house of the Turkic Empire
Royalty and nobility with disabilities
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