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- ↑ Selon Marie-Félicité Brosset, d'autres historiens reportent l'année du meurtre de la princesse à 475.
- ↑ ( Grousset 1947 , pp. 216–223).
- ↑ KAWĀD I i. Reign, Nikolaus Schindel, Encyclopaedia Iranica