Kavad I
473 CE–531 CE · Ctesiphon
Kavad I was king of the Sasanian Empire of Persia, reigning from 488 to 531 with an interruption in the 490s when he was deposed by the nobility and later restored. He inherited a realm weakened by defeat, economic strain, and the outsized power of the great noble families and the Zoroastrian clergy, which he sought to counter. For a time he supported the socioreligious movement of the preacher Mazdak, using it to undermine the aristocracy, though the movement was later suppressed. He fought renewed wars with the Byzantine Empire and left to his son and successor, Khosrow I, a set of reforms that revitalized the state.
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