# Tan-Shapur

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**Tan-Shapur** was a [Sasanian](/source/Sasanian) nobleman who served as [Marzban](/source/Marzban) of [Persian Armenia](/source/Persian_Armenia) from 552/554 to 560.

## Biography

Little is known about Tan-Shapur. [René Grousset](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Grousset) said he governed [Persian Armenia](/source/Persian_Armenia) from 554 to 560.[1] [Cyril Toumanoff](/source/Cyril_Toumanoff), however, says that Tan-Shapur's governorship of Persian Armenia lasted from 552 to 560.[2] [Stepanos Asoghik](/source/Stepanos_Asoghik), an Armenian historian who lived in the 11th century, said that Tan-Shapur went proselytizing [Zoroastrianism](/source/Zoroastrianism) in Persian Armenia, where many Christians preferred to die instead of converting. However, it was during his governorship that the [Armenian Apostolic Church](/source/Armenian_Apostolic_Church) organized the [Second Council of Dvin](/source/Second_Council_of_Dvin). In 560, Tan-Shapur was replaced by Varazdat as Marzban of Persian Armenia.

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## Sources

- Basmadjian, Krikor Jacob (1914). "Chronologie de l'histoire d'Arménie" (in French). *Revue de l'Orient chrétien*. **IX** (XIX): 293–294.
- Grousset, René (1947). *Histoire de l'Arménie des origines à 1071* (in French). Paris: Payot.
- Toumanoff, Cyrille (1990). "Vice-rois iraniens (Marzpans) d'Arménie". *Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne de l'Antiquité jusqu'au xixe siècle : Tables généalogiques et chronologiques* (in French). Rome. pp. 506–507.
- Settipani, Christian (2006). *Continuité des élites à Byzance durant les siècles obscurs. Les princes caucasiens et l'Empire du vie au ixe siècle* (in French). Paris: de Boccard. ISBN 978-2-7018-0226-8.
- Dédéyan, Gérard (2007). *Histoire du peuple arménien* (in French). Toulouse: Éd. Privat. ISBN 978-2-7089-6874-5.

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