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Sasanian Empire (/səˈsɑːniən, səˈseɪniən/) or Sassanid Empire, officially known as Ērānšahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before...

few decades led to one of the largest empires in history, beginning with a confrontation with the Sassanid Empire under the general Khalid ibn al-Walid...

Sassanian or New Persian Empire" p. 184 Farrokh, The Sassanids, 2017 Wilcox, Peter (1986). Rome's Enemies: Parthians and Sassanid Persians (Men-at-Arms)...

their former suzerain, the Parthian Empire, at the Battle of Hormozdgan in 224. At its height, the Sasanian Empire spanned from Turkey and Rhodes in the...

for over 400 years, during which the Sassanid Empire was, along with the Roman Empire and later the East Roman Empire, one of the two superpowers of late...

originating from Sind and claims that they were distributed throughout the Sassanid Empire. Al-Khwarizmi also elucidates their origins, attributing their roots...

even within his inner circle. 565AD. Roman Empire, blue and purple; Sassanid Empire in yellow. Sassanid vassals, in orange, encompassing the Persian...

Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (d. 323) Bahram I, king of the Sassanid Empire Marcus Annius Florianus, Roman emperor Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Roman...

From his uncle, Justinian inherited ongoing hostilities with the Sassanid Empire. In 530 the Persian forces suffered a double defeat at Dara and Satala...

the Sassanids in 627, this was a pyrrhic victory. The early Muslim conquests soon saw the conquest of the Levant, of Egypt, and of the Sassanid Empire by...

gradually adopted local Muslim emblems and banners. The official flag of the empire was most probably a black flag, similar to the flag of the Abbasid Caliphate...

borderlands in the Carolingian Empire and had a long career as purely conventional designations under the Holy Roman Empire. In modern German, "Mark" denotes...

Danube frontier with success. He died while campaigning against the Sassanid Empire and is believed to have died of unnatural causes. It was reported that...

Fourth Crusade, after which the Empire would never recover, finally succumbing to the Ottoman Empire in 1453. The Sassanid era, encompassing the length of...

Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 14 August 2019. Rome's Enemies (3): Parthians and Sassanid Persians By Peter Wilcox, Angus McBride...

was the intellectual centre of the Sassanid Empire and the home of the Academy of Gundeshapur, founded by Sassanid Emperor Shapur I. Gundeshapur was home...

Mesopotamia fell to the Sassanid Persians. The division of the region between the Roman Byzantine Empire from 395 AD and the Sassanid Empire lasted until the...

Armenia, was conquered and annexed by the Sassanid Empire. Albania became a vassal state of the Sassanid Empire, but retained its monarchy; the Albanian...

payment of tributes to the Empire's neighbors. This miscalculated move resulted in rekindling of war with the Sassanid Empire, and in a Lombard invasion...

within the Empire. This system of maintaining the Christians as a protected religious community continued after the Islamic conquest of the Sassanids, and the...