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Babak Khorramdin, Iranian leader of the Khurramite uprising against the Abbasid Caliphate
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9th-century Iranian revolutionary leader
Bābak Khorramdin was one of the main Iranian revolutionary leaders of the Iranian Khorram-Dinān, which was a local freedom movement fighting the Abbasid Caliphate. Khorramdin appears to be a compound analogous to durustdin "orthodoxy" and Behdin "Good Religion" (Zoroastrianism),…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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