Kavad I (Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭥𐭠𐭲 Kawād; 473 – 13 September 531) was the Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 488 to 531, with a two or three-year interruption...

mythological figure of Iranian folklore and oral tradition. Kavadh I, Sasanian king (r. 488–531) Kavadh II, Sasanian king (r. 628) Qubad Kamran, a character...

the Persian shah Kavadh I (r. 488–531) proposed that Emperor Justin I adopt his son, Khosrow I. According to Procopius, Kavadh I tried to force the...

reformer who gained influence during the reign of the Sasanian emperor Kavadh I. He claimed to be a prophet of Ahura Mazda and instituted social welfare...

Kavadh I of Persia died (September 531), Justinian concluded an "Eternal Peace" (which cost him 11,000 pounds of gold) with his successor Khosrau I (532)...

proved disastrous, and as a result he was replaced by Peroz's son Kavadh I. Kavadh I, during his reign, began worshiping Mazdakism, a modified version...

- Coronation of Kavadh I; expedition against Khazars. c. 490 - Mazdak teaches his egalitarian ideology with the benefit of Kavadh I’s support. c. 490...

father Clovis I. Theudis, sword-bearer of former king Theodoric the Great, succeeds Amalaric as new ruler of the Visigoths. King Kavadh I, age 82, dies...

502, during the opening stages of the Anastasian War. The Sasanian ruler Kavadh I laid siege to the city of Theodosiopolis, a major Byzantine stronghold...

three months before falling to the military of the Sasanian Empire under Kavadh I. According to the detailed account of Zacharias Rhetor, the city's sack...