Gil Gavbara

Gil Gavbara
Ispahbadh of Tabaristan
Coin of Gil Gavbara
Reign	642-660
Successor	Dabuya
House	Dabuyid dynasty
Father	Piruz
Died	660 Tabaristan
Religion	Zoroastrianism

Gil Gavbara (Persian: گیل گیلانشاه‎), also known as Farrukhan Gilanshah was king and founder of the Dabuyid dynasty in 642, until his death in 660.

Biography

According to Ibn Isfandiyar, the Dabuyids were descended from a brother of the Sassanid shah Kavadh I, whom was named Djamasp. Gil Gavbara was the son of Piruz, who is described as brave as Rostam.^[1] Piruz later conquered Gilan, and married a woman who bore him a son named Gil Gavbara.^[2]

Gil Gavbara is known to have extended the family's rule over Tabaristan. This led to the formal conferment of the titles of Gil-Gilan ("ruler of Gilan") and Padashwargarshah ("Shah of Patashwargar", the old name of Tabaristan's mountains), to Gil Gavbara's son Dabuya, by the last Sasanian shah, Yazdegerd III.

References

Sources

• Madelung, W. (1975). "The Minor Dynasties of Northern Iran". In Frye, R.N. The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 4: From the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 198–249. ISBN 978-0-521-20093-6. 
• Madelung, Wilferd (1993). "DABUYIDS". In Yarshater, Ehsan. Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. VI, Fasc. 5. London et al.: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 541–544. ISBN 1-56859-007-5. 
• Pourshariati, Parvaneh (2008). Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-645-3. 

v t e Dabuyid rulers of Tabaristan Ispahbadhs Gil Gavbara Dabuya Farrukhan the Great Dadhburzmihr Farrukhan the Little Khurshid See also Paduspanids Cave of Khurshid Saruyih