Gil Gavbara

Gil Gavbara
Ispahbadh of Tabaristan
Coin of Gil Gavbara
Reign	642-660
Successor	Dabuya
Born	7th-century Gilan
Died	660 Tabaristan
House	Dabuyid dynasty
Father	Piruz
Mother	Gilani princess
Religion	Zoroastrianism

Gil Gavbara (Persian: گیل گیلانشاه‎‎), known in Arabic sources as Jil-i Jilanshah and Gavbarih, was king and founder of the Dabuyid dynasty in 642, which he ruled until his death in 660.

According to Ibn Isfandiyar, the Dabuyids were descended from a brother of the Sassanid shah Kavadh I, whom was named Djamasp. Gil Gavbara was the son of Piruz, who is described as brave as the Iranian mythological hero Rostam. Piruz later became the ruler of Gilan, and married a woman who bore him a son named Gil Gavbara.

In ca. 642, Piruz died, and was succeeded by Gil Gavbara as the ruler of Gilan. Gil Gavbara was later given all of Tabaristan, which led to the formal conferment of the titles of Gil-Gilan ("ruler of Gilan") and Padashwargarshah ("Shah of Patashwargar", the old name of Tabaristan's mountains), to Gil Gavbara's son Dabuya, by the last Sasanian shah, Yazdegerd III.