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Dabuya
Dabuya was a ruler in Tabaristan, northern Iran, in the 7th century, a son of Gil Gavbara and the figure from whom the Dabuyid dynasty took its name. According to the historian Ibn Isfandiyar his descendants ruled the lowlands of Tabaristan as ispahbads until the Abbasid conquest of 759–760, while his brother Paduspan founded the Paduspanid line in the mountains.
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