Sasanian Empire (/səˈsɑːniən, səˈseɪniən/) or Sassanid Empire, also the Second Persian Empire, and officially known as Ērānšahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians")...

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...

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

or the Achaemenid Empire Second Persian Empire (officially the Empire of the Iranians) or the Sassanid Empire The Land of Iran (1256–1335) under the Ilkhanids...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

creation of the Sassanid-aligned Lakhmid Kingdom in around 300 AD; the Arabic name al-ʿIrāq dates to roughly this time. The Sassanid Empire was eventually...

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

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

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...

succeeded by the Sassanid Empire in 224 after Ardashir I defeated and killed Artabanus V during the Battle of Hormozdgan. The Sassanids then went on to...

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

center of the Sassanid Empire. A magnetic compass is first used in China. Emperor Aurelian launches a two-pronged invasion of the Palmyrene Empire, sending...

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

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...

and purges Africa of his supporters. King Hormizd II, ruler of the Sassanid Empire, demands that the king of the Ghassanids pays tribute. After the king...

Parthian Empire was crushed not by the Romans but by the rebellious Persian vassal king Ardashir I, who revolted, leading to the establishment of Sassanid Empire...

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

frontier of the two large empires and their successors, the Byzantine and Sassanid empires. In 301, Tiridates III proclaimed Christianity as the state religion...

influence of the Sassanid Empire. After the demise of the Lakhmids, another army was sent to Yemen, making it a province of the Sassanid Empire under a Persian...

next generation or two. The Empire suffered multiple serious crises during the third century. The rising Sassanid Empire inflicted three crushing defeats...

a local Hindu king, Jadi Rana. Before the 7th-century fall of the Sassanid Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate, the Iranian mainland had a Zoroastrian majority...

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...