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Ardeshir

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ137277 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ardeshir, Ardashir or Ardasher may refer to:

Throne name of several rulers

Artaxerxes (disambiguation), the Hellenized form of Ardeshir

Ardashir Orontid, r. 5th century BC, Armenian king from the Orontid dynasty

Ardashir I (180–242), r. 224–242, founder of the Sassanid Empire

Ardashir II (died 383), r. 379–383, son of Hormizd II and successor of Shapur II "the Great"

Ardashir III (621–630), r. 628–630, the youngest of the Sassanid kings

Ardashir I Kushanshah (died 245), ruler of the Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom from 233 to 245

Ardashir I (Bavandid ruler) (Ardashir I of Mazandaran, died 1205), r. 1173–1205, ruler of the Bavand dynasty

Ardashir II (Bavandid ruler) (Ardashir II of Mazandaran, died 1249), r.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1205, 1173, 1249—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ardeshir, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q137277. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1205, 1173 and 1249.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ardeshir” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.