Ruler · 250 – 293

Bahram II

Lived 250 – 293; monarch. Emperor of the Sasanian Empire (Sasanian Empire), 274 – 293; also in the line of Persian Empire.

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Lived: 250 – 293; 43 years
In office: 19 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

Emperor of the Sasanian Empire

Sasanian Empire · the 5th of 32 dated reigns · 224 – 651

1 before

Bahram II274 – 293

24 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 274 – 293 · 19 years · came to it aged 24

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

After four months of reigning, however, he was overthrown by Narseh, who had Wahnam executed.

Also in the line of Persian Empire (15th of 51, read from the line of Sasanian Empire).

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