Wuzurg framadār (Middle Persian: LBʾ plmtʾr, meaning "the grand commander or the grand commanding body") was a Sasanian office which was equivalent to the office of Grand Vizier in the later Islamic period.
List
- Abarsam, active during the reign of Ardashir I.
- Khosrow Yazdegerd under Yazdegerd I
- Mihr Narseh under Yazdegerd I and Bahram V
- Suren Pahlav under Bahram V, possibly Mihr Narseh's direct successor
- Bozorgmehr under Kavad I and Khosrow I
- Izadgushasp under Khosrow I
- Piruz Khosrow under Kavadh II and Ardashir III
- Mah-Adhur Gushnasp under Ardashir III
- Farrukh Hormizd under Boran
Sources
- "Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica".
- ^ Chaumont, Marie-Louise (2000). "FRAMADĀR". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume X/2: Forūḡī–Fruit. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 125–126. ISBN 978-0-933273-41-2.
- E. Yarshater, “Abarsam,” Encyclopædia Iranica, I/1, pp. 67-68; available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abarsam (accessed on 10 January 2014).
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