Kavadh I (Persian: قباد Qabād or Qobād) (born circa 473 Ctesiphon modern-day Iraq; died September 13 531 Syria; ruled 488–531) was the son of Peroz I (457–484) and the twentieth and twenty-first Sassanid king of Persia reigning from 488 to 531. He was crowned by the nobles in place of his deposed and blinded uncle Balash (484–488).
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