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delineation of Persian kings

In shāh
When compounded as shāhanshāh, it denotes “king of kings,” or emperor, a title adopted by the 20th-century Pahlavi dynasty in evocation of the ancient Persian “king of kings,” Cyrus II the Great (reigned 559–c. 529 bc). Another related title or form of address is padshāh, or “lord king.”…
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history of Iran

In Iran: The Buyids
…the old Achaemenian title of shāhanshāh, king of kings, reappeared—a title Aḥmad may have thought appropriate for an Iranian whose family reconquered Iran south of the Elburz Mountains. As suggested above, Buyid titles emphasized political and territorial sovereignty. This sovereignty reached its greatest extent under Rukn al-Dawlah’s son, ʿAḍud al-Dawlah,…
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