Bacurius II

Bakur II (, Latinized as Bacurius), of the Chosroid Dynasty, was a king (mepe) of Iberia (natively known as Kartli; ancient Georgia) from 534 to 547.

The name is the Latin form of the Greek Bakour (), itself a variant of the Middle Iranian Pakur, derived from Old Iranian bag-puhr ('son of a god'). The name "Bakur" is the Georgian (ბაკურ) and Armenian (Բակուր) attestation of Middle Iranian Pakur.

Bakur was the son and successor of King Dachi. According to the medieval Georgian chronicler Juansher, he died leaving young children and Iberia fell under Sassanid control.Martindale, John Robert (1992), The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, p. 169. Cambridge University Press, . He had two children, Pharasmanes V and one of the parents of Pharasmanes VI.

See also Sasanian Iberia

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