Shadh-Shapur Explained

Shadh-Shapur was an Iranian king who ruled Spahan and its surroundings as a vassal of the Parthian Empire in the early 3rd-century. In 224, the Sasanian king Ardashir I seized the city and killed him.

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• Encyclopedia: ISFAHAN iv. PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD . Hansman . J. . http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/isfahan-iv-pre-islamic-period . Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XIII, Fasc. 6 . 635–638 . 2006 .
• Book: Al-Tabari, Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir . Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari . Ehsan Yar-Shater . The History of Al-Ṭabarī. . 40 vols. . State University of New York Press . Albany, NY . 1985–2007 .