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    Yazdegerd III (Middle Persian: 𐭩𐭦𐭣𐭪𐭥𐭲𐭩; also Romanized Yazdgerd, Yazdgird) was the last Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 632 to 651. His father...
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  • Ali ibn Husayn. She was reportedly a Sassanid princess, a daughter of Yazdegerd III, the last Sassanid emperor of Persia. Shahrbanu has also been referred...
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    administration, until Yazdegerd III rose to power. All these factors undermined the strength of the Persian army. Yazdegerd III was merely 8 years old...
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    of the imperial family fled in exile to China following the death of Yazdegerd III, where they would become accepted as members of the imperial court by...
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    Heraclius married off his granddaughter Manyanh to the Sasanian king Yazdegerd III to symbolize the alliance.[citation needed] After the assassination...
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  • had overrun Persia. Following his defeat, the last Sassanid Emperor, Yazdegerd III, became a hunted fugitive who fled to Central Asia and then to China...
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    Rostam Farrokhzad (category Generals of Yazdegerd III)
    Adurbadagan under the Sasanian monarchs Boran (r. 630–630, 631–632) and Yazdegerd III (r. 632–651). Rostam is remembered as a historical figure, a character...
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    Boran was killed by strangulation. She was succeeded by her nephew Yazdegerd III, the last Sasanian ruler, making her the penultimate ruler of the Sasanian...
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    forces under caliph Umar and Sasanian Persian armies under King Yazdegerd III. Yazdegerd escaped to the Merv area, but was unable to raise another substantial...
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    of Nihawānd 644: The Muslims conquer Khorasan; Yazdegerd III becomes a hunted fugitive 651: Yazdegerd III flees eastward from one district to another, until...
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    between his two sons Hormizd III and Peroz I for the throne, with the latter emerging victorious. The name of Yazdegerd is a combination of the Old Iranian...
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    Persian from Istakhr, and ended with Yazdegerd III in 651. The period from 631 (when Boran died) to 632 (when Yazdgerd III takes the throne) is confusing in...
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    Peroz III (Middle Persian: 𐭯𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭰 Pērōz; Chinese: 卑路斯三世; pinyin: Bēilùsī Sān Shì) was son of Yazdegerd III, the last King of Kings of Sasanian Iran...
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  • II's grandson Yazdegerd III on the throne, putting an end to the civil war. The Sasanian Empire was greatly weakened when Yazdegerd III ascended the throne...
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    Heraclius and Emperor Yazdegerd III allied against their common enemy.[citation needed] He was lucky in that the Persian Emperor Yazdegerd III couldn't synchronize...
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    the accession of Ardashir II. 383 - Coronation of Shapur III. 399 - Coronation of Yazdegerd I, titled “the Sinner” owing to his efforts to control the...
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    Thutmose III (variously also spelt Tuthmosis or Thothmes), sometimes called Thutmose the Great, was the sixth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty. Officially...
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  • Farrukhzad (category Generals of Yazdegerd III)
    greatly weakened the Sasanian Empire, but by 632, when Khosrow's grandson Yazdegerd III (r. 632–651) ascended the throne, order was somewhat restored. However...
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    granddaughter) Manyanh to Yazdegerd III, to cement the alliance. While Heraclius prepared for a major offensive in the Levant, Yazdegerd was to mount a simultaneous...
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  • Bahram VII (Middle Persian: Wahrām) was the son of Yazdegerd III, the last Shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire. After the death of his father at Merv in...
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  • Hormozd Jadhuyih (category Generals of Yazdegerd III)
    Hormozd Jadhuyih was a Sasanian commander who is known for his participation at the Battle of Firaz during the Arab invasion of Iran, which resulted in...
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    domination of the Levant. Meanwhile, Umar occupied Yazdegerd III in a grand deception.[citation needed] Yazdegerd III lost his army at the Battle of Qadisiyyah...
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  • (Persian: اردوان Ardavan) and ended when the last Sasanian monarch, Yazdegerd III (632–651), lost a 19-year struggle to drive out the early Arab Caliphate...
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    who succeeded as emperor Theodosius Manyanh, who reportedly married Yazdegerd III. The Romans themselves did not use regnal numbers, which are instead...
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  • brothers and half-brothers executed. Shahriyar was survived by his son Yazdegerd III, who would later rule the Sasanian Empire from 632 to 651. Greatrex...
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    Usermaatre Meryamun Ramesses III was the second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty in Ancient Egypt. Some scholars date his reign from 26 March 1186 to...
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  • Mahoe Suri (category Generals of Yazdegerd III)
    "margrave") of Marv during the reign of the last Sasanian king of kings Yazdegerd III (r. 632–651). Mahoe was probably from the House of Suren, one of the...
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    king Yazdegerd III fled to Sakastan in the mid-640s, where its governor Aparviz (who was more or less independent), helped him. However, Yazdegerd III quickly...
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    mountains in Tabaristan) by the last king of kings of the Sassanid Empire, Yazdegerd III. After the Muslim conquest of Persia, that Sassanian cadet branch and...
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    was the capital of Khurasan and here Yazdegerd III held his court. On hearing of the Muslim advance, Yazdegerd III left for Balkh. No resistance was offered...
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