Bahram VI

Main deeds:

• Name: Bahram VI
• Hero from the war against the Turks
• Beginning of reign: 590
• Revolted against Hormizd IV the Turk and marches to the west. Hormizd is executed; his son Khusrau succeeds him but seeks refuge in the Byzantine Empire.
• 591 A Byzantine army brings back Khusrau
• Bahram escapes to the Turks, finds asylum in the Fergana valley, but is assassinated. His followers start to support another Parthian rebel, Bistam.

General Literature on Sasanian Persia

• Touraj Daryaee, Sasanian Persia. The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2009)
• Josef Wiesehöfer, Das antike Persien. Von 550 v. Chr. bis 650 n. Chr. (1994)