Sasanian Empire

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Sources

1. BookOn the Deaths of the Persecutors
2. BookThe Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

Relations

location of:

• Gundeshapur

  Sources: Encyclopædia Iranica

ally of:

• Avarssince 626 CE O.S.

  Sources: A History of the Byzantine State and Society, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern History AD 284–813

conquered by:

• Rashidun Caliphate633 CE O.S. – 651 CE O.S.

  Sources: The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

defeated by:

• Heracliussince 12 Dec 627 CE O.S.

  Sources: A History of the Byzantine State and Society, The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium

ruled by:

• Bahram I

  Sources: Encyclopædia Iranica

• Khosrow I531 CE – 579 CE

  Sources: A History of Chess

• Khosrow II590 CE O.S. – 628 CE O.S.

  Sources: A History of the Byzantine State and Society, The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium

• Shapur II309 CE O.S. – 379 CE O.S.

  Sources: A History of the Byzantine State and Society, The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium

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