Shāpūr ( fa, شاپور, meaning ''son of the king'') or Sapor is a Persian

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. It is first attested in

Middle Persian Middle Persian or Pahlavi, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg () in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire. For some time after the Sasanian collapse, Middle ...

as Shāhpuhr (). The Armenian form is Շապուհ ''Šapuh'' or Սեպուհ ''Sepuh''.

Sasanian kings

Shapur can refer to one of four

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 ...

kings: *

Shapur I Shapur I (also spelled Shabuhr I; pal, 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩, Šābuhr ) was the second Sasanian King of Kings of Iran. The dating of his reign is disputed, but it is generally agreed that he ruled from 240 to 270, with his father Ardas ...

(r. 241–272) *

Shapur II Shapur II ( pal, 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩 ; New Persian: , ''Šāpur'', 309 – 379), also known as Shapur the Great, was the tenth Sasanian King of Kings (Shahanshah) of Iran. The longest-reigning monarch in Iranian history, he reigne ...

(r. 309–379) *

Shapur III Shapur III ( pal, 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩 ), was the Sasanian Empire, Sasanian King of Kings () of Iran from 383 to 388. He was the son of Shapur II () and succeeded his uncle Ardashir II (). His reign was largely uneventful; to the west, ...

(r. 383–388) * Shapur IV (r. 420) *

Shapur-i Shahrvaraz Shapur-i Shahrvaraz ( pal, 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩𐭩 𐭧𐭱𐭨𐭥𐭥𐭥𐭰, meaning "Shapur, son of Shahrvaraz"), also known as Shapur V, was Sasanian king (shah) of Iran briefly in 630. Biography Shapur-i Shahrvaraz was the son of ...

(r. 630)

Other people

Shapur may also refer to: *

Vramshapuh Vramshapuh ( hy, Վռամշապուհ) was a noble of the Arsacid dynasty who served as the Sasanian client king of Armenia from 389 until his death in 414. He is mainly remembered for presiding over the creation of the Armenian alphabet by Mes ...

or Bahram-Shapur, a Prince who served as a

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Arsacid The Parthian Empire (), also known as the Arsacid Empire (), was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran from 247 BC to 224 AD. Its latter name comes from its founder, Arsaces I, who led the Parni tribe in conquer ...

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from 389 until 417. *

Shapur Mihran Shapur Mihran ( pal, 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩 𐭬𐭲𐭥), known in Armenian sources as Shapuh Mihran ( Armenian: Շապուհ Միհրան), was a Sasanian nobleman from the House of Mihran. He served as the marzban of Persian Armenia briefl ...

, a 5th-century

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noble 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 ...

, who served as the

marzban Marzbān, or Marzpān (Middle Persian transliteration: mrzwpn, derived from ''marz'' "border, boundary" and the suffix ''-pān'' "guardian"; Modern Persian: ''Marzbān'') were a class of margraves, warden of the marches, and by extension milita ...

(governor) of Persian Armenia briefly in 482. *

Shapur of Ray Shapur of Ray was a Sasanian military officer from the Mihran family. The city Ray in his name was the seat of the Mihran family. According to Abu Hanifa Dinawari (d. 896), Shapur was the governor of the two Mesopotamian districts of Khutarniyah a ...

or Shapur Razi, a 5th-century

from the

, who served as the

(governor) of Persian Armenia from 483 to 484. *

Shapur (Bavandid ruler) Shapur (Persian: شاپور یکم) was the seventh ruler of the Bavand dynasty, who ruled briefly in 825. He was the son and successor of Shahriyar I. Reign Just when Shapur had ascended the Bavandid throne, the Qarinvand Mazyar, whom Shapur' ...

(died 825), local ruler in Tabaristan * Shapur Bakhtiar (1915–1991), former Prime Minister of Iran * Shapur ibn Sahl, a ninth-century Persian Christian physician from the Academy of Gundishapur * Sapor of Bet-Nicator was the Christian bishop of Bet-Nicator *

Maharsapor Saint Maharsapor (or Sapor; died 421) was an early Persian Christian martyr who is considered a saint. Different sources give his feast day as 10 October, 2 November or 27 November. Life Maharsapor was a Persian of noble family who was brought ...

(or Sapor; died 421), an early Christian martyr of Persia. *

Shapoor Zadran Shapoor Zadran ( ps, ; born 8 July 1987) is an Afghan cricketer. Zadran is a left-arm fast-medium bowler. Zadran currently plays for the Afghanistan national cricket team. Domestic career Zadran made his debut for Afghanistan against Chitral i ...

, an Afghan cricketer * Shapoor Reporter, a British intelligence agent * Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry (born 1929), Indian-born Irish businessman *Mar Shapur also known as Mar Sabor , a Chaldean Assyrian bishop who helped set up a church in present day Kollam,

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Places

* Anbar, Iraq was known as Peroz-Shapur in ancient times.

Other

*Shapur, a character in

Nizami Ganjavi Nizami Ganjavi ( fa, نظامی گنجوی, lit=Niẓāmī of Ganja, translit=Niẓāmī Ganjavī; c. 1141–1209), Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was ''Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī'',Mo'in ...

's tale ''Khusraw and Shirin'' * Shapoorji Pallonji Group, Indian business conglomerate

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