Vahram V Gour (the onager) (also transcribed Bahram )

Reign of 420 with 438. Wire of Yazdgard Ier and Soshandukht, girl of a exilarque Jew. Persian king Sassanide of . Father of Yazdgard II Sipahdost. It seized the capacity vis-a-vis the large ones of Persia thanks to the assistance of Al Mondir, dynaste Arab of Hira. Dynamics, it had particular tastes for hunting (from where its nickname, that it would have received after having killed a onager), arts and poetry.

Persecutions against the Christian continued under its reign and many took refuge in the Roman empire of the East. Varham V required that the fugitive ones be delivered to him but Théodose II refused, and the war was declared as of 420. It begin with several Persian defeats and from many prisoners fell to the hands from the Romans from the East who advanced to the province of Azarène and devastated it. Then, it was in Nisibis in Mésopotamie which was besieged by the Romans of the East. Vahram decided to carry the large one of its troops on this city. In spite of the number, the Perses (and many bought Turks) were severely demolished.

At the time of a frequent singular combat in the tradition sassanide, he opposed his champion to a Goth romanized which killed it. Vahram then had to require peace. It was signed in 422 with Théodose II percent years and the Christians had freedom of worship again (n the other hand, the zoroastriens also in the Roman empire). It rebuilds many temples zoroastriens in Persia. In 427, it have to face an attack of the Huns Hephtalites since the Central Asia. It overcame them and extended its influence on this sector. It deposited the king of Arménie and made of it a province of the empire in 428.