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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Shahrbanu (redirect from Shahrbanu binte Yazdgerd III)
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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Ghaznavids (section Mas'ud III)
" 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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The Forgotten Kings (section Part III)
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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