- The
Kayanians (Persian: دودمان کیانیان, romanized: Dudmân-e Kayâniyân; also Kays, Kayanids, Kaianids, Kiyani, Kayani, or Kiani) are a
legendary dynasty...
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texts of the
Sasanian period, they are gods of the
Izder race.
Kayanian dynasty: The
Kayanians are the
second mythological dynasty of Iran,
which in Ferdowsi's...
- was used by the last
Kayanian monarch (Vishtaspa) and
occurs in the 10th-century
Zoroastrian Denkard.
Sasanian interest in
Kayanian ideology and history...
- ("king"),
which evidently ****ociates him and the
dynasty to the
mythical Kayanian dynasty commemorated in the Avesta. His
death led to a
dynastic struggle...
- from the
Achaemenid dynasty. They also
claimed descent from the
legendary Kayanian figure Esfandiyār , who was the son of Vishtaspa, who
according to Zoroastrian...
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houses claimed to have been
confirmed as
lords in Iran by the
legendary Kayanian king Vishtaspa. "It may be that [...]
members of them made up
their own...
- One of the
early centres of Zoroastrianism, and
capital of the
legendary Kayanian dynasty,
Bactria is
mentioned in the
Behistun Inscription of
Darius the...
- the
unknown writer of
Mojmal al-tawārīḵ wa’l-qeṣāṣ
refer to
Farhad as a
Kayanian figure. Balʿamī is one of the
first writers that
refer to
Farhad as a Sasanian...
-
Alexander III of
Macedon (Ancient Gr****: Ἀλέξανδρος, romanized: Aléxandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most
commonly known as
Alexander the...
-
remembered in
Iranian traditions as Dara II, the last king of the
mythological Kayanian dynasty,
which reflected memories of the Achaemenids.
Before his accession...
