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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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  • Husayn. She was reportedly a Sassanid princess, a daughter of Yazdegerd III, the last Sassanid emperor of Persia. Shahrbanu has also been referred to...
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  • The history of calendars covers practices with ancient roots as people created and used various methods to keep track of days and larger divisions of time...
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  • Taqizadeh S H: Old Iranian Calendars, Royal Asiatic Society (1938). Curtius, iii, 10. Fazlur Rehman Shaikh, Chronology of Prophetic Events (London: Ta-Ha...
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    emissary to Ctesiphon and met Sasanian Emperor Yazdgerd III, but the mission failed. During one meeting, Yazdgerd III, intent on humiliating the Arabs, ordered...
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  • [citation needed] Al-Ahnaf followed Yazdgerd III until he barricaded himself in the town of Marwir-Rawdh. Yazdgerd III unsuccessfully appealed to neighboring...
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    in the years 632–634, after the accession of the last Sasanian king Yazdgerd III (632–651) to power, but in the period from 628 to 632." An important...
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    plan was to coordinate his attacks with those of Yazdgerd III, the Sassanid emperor. In 635 Yazdgerd III had sought an alliance with Heraclius, marrying...
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    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 determining...
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  • play of the same name. The story of the film is based on the murder of Yazdgerd III, the last emperor of Sasanian Persia, who while being hard pressed by...
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    would follow Yazdgerd III to every corner of his empire either will kill him or will capture him, like he did with Hormuzan. Yazdgerd III would have a...
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    method. After an Arab incursion into Sasanian territories, the shah Yazdgerd III, who had just ascended the Persian throne, raised an army to resist the...
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    launched a series of further military expansions by further mauling Yazdegerd III near Oxus River in Turkmenistan and later crushing a military coalition of...
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    the Muslims. Following defeat by the Arabs in 639, the "King of Kings" Yazdgerd III was forced to abandon his capital at Ctesiphon. From Mesopotamia, he...
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    " The Ghaznavids also claimed ancestry from the last Sassanid Shah, Yazdgerd III, but this was "a fictitious genealogy" they themselves had promulgated...
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    Arash shot his arrow. In 641, during the reign of the Sasanian Empire, Yazdgerd III issued his last appeal to the nation from Rhages, before fleeing to Khorasan...
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    remaining Persia.[citation needed] The last Sassanid king of Persia, Yazdgerd III, moved the throne to Khorasan following the Arab invasion in the western...
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    Azarmidokht all succeeded to the throne within months of each other. Only when Yazdgerd III, a grandson of Khosrow II, succeeded to the throne in 632 was there stability...
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    needed] An old myth regarding the name of the city is that the Emperor Yazdgerd III sent his son named Pav to this area to renew his religious Zoroastrian...
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  • purported granddaughter of Heraclius and wife of Yazdgerd III. Heraclius died on 11 February 641. Constantine III became senior emperor with his paternal half-brother...
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  • Death of Yazdgerd (or alternatively translated as Death of the King; and whose original subtitle translates "Regicide") (Persian: مرگ یزدگرد) is a Persian...
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    eight alongside Amr bin Maadikar who were sent by Saad bin Abi Waqqas to Yazdgerd III. Many of Muawiyah's noble sons descended on Kufa in the year 17 Hijra...
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    left as the successor of Khalid. The Persians, under their new emperor Yazdgerd III, regrouped, concentrated new armies and defeated the Muslims in the Battle...
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    Muthanna bin Haritha was later victorious in the Battle of Buwayb. In 635 Yazdgerd III sought an alliance with Emperor Heraclius of the Eastern Roman Empire...
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  • The Ghaznavids claimed descent from the last Sasanian shah, Yazdagird III... Subtelny 2007, pp. 40–41. "Nevertheless, in the complex process of transition...
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    Tabaristan. There he invited the last Sasanian shah, Yazdgerd III, to find refuge, but Yazdgerd refused, and was killed in 651. Like many other local...
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    during the help of Yazdgerd III, he sent his son named Javanshir to help of the Sassanid army. But after the death of Yazdgar III, Javanshir returned...
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    left as the successor of Khalid. The Sassanids, under their new emperor Yazdgerd III, raised new armies and defeated the Muslims in the Battle of the Bridge...
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  • Nestorian history by the reigns of the Sasanian rulers from Hormizd IV to Yazdgerd III (r. 632–652) and the Nestorian patriarchs down to Maremmeh (r. 646–649)...
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    he was killed in Gonabad. The main text of Blazeri's book The Fate of Yazdgerd III: Then he went to Khorasan, then he went to Janabad (Gonabad) he was welcomed...
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