P'arsman VI ( ka, ფარსმან VI, sometimes Latinized as ''Pharasmanes''), of the

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, became the king of

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, eastern

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) in 561. The length of his reign is unknown. The royal power was largely nominal at that time as the

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dominated Iberia. He was the fraternal nephew of P’arsman V, his predecessor. P'arsman VI himself was succeeded by his son, Bakur III.Martindale, John Robert (1992), ''The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', p. 967.

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