Vistahm

Vistahm

Vistahm or Bistam (also transliterated Wistaxm, Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭮𐭲𐭧𐭬 wsthm), was a Parthian dynast of the Ispahbudhan house, and maternal uncle of the Sasanian king of kings of Iran, Khosrow II (r. 590–628). Vistahm helped Khosrow regain his throne after the rebellion of another Parthian noble Bahram Chobin, of House of Mihran, but later led a revolt himself, and ruled independently over a region which encompassed the entire Iranian East until he was defeated by Khosrow and his allies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vistahm has received more than 72,588 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Vistahm is the 13,682nd most popular politician (up from 13,810th in 2019).