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		Ardashir II (flourished 4th century ad), king of Persia (379-83).
		genealogy of Ardashir has of course been connected with the Achaemenids, on whose behalf he exacts vengeance from the Parthians, and with the legendary kings of old Iran.
		Ardashir II: 379–383: Shapur III: 383–388: Varahran IV: 388–399: Yazdagird I: 399–420: Varahran V: 420–439: Yazdagird II: 439–457: Hormazd III: 457–459: Peroz: 459–484
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	CONK! Encyclopedia: Sassanian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ardashir I, the establisher of the Sassanids was grandson of Sassan, the great priest of Temple of Anahita.
		When King Hormizd II died, the Persian magnates killed his eldest son, blinded the second, and imprisoned the third (Hormizd afterwards escaped to the Romans); the throne was reserved for the unborn child of one of the wives of Hormizd.
		The palace ruins of Ardashir I, founder of the dynasty, south of Shiraz, Iran.
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	Iranian History
		Two years later Ardashir was crowned in Ctesiphon as Ardashir I and became the founder of the Sasanian dynasty on the throne of Persia.
		During the reign of Vahram I and Vahram II (till A.D. 302) the influence of the Zoroastrian clergy was dramatically increased because of the presence of Kartir, the Mubadan-i Mubad (=Great Priest).
		Khusraw II wanted to be the first Sasanian king who would conquer all those lands that had been conquered by Darius I Histaspa in the 6th B.C. The lack of stability in the Byzantine Empire gave the Sasanian King the chance to wage a war against the great enemy.
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	AllRefer.com - Sassanid, Iran History (Iranian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Ardashir I was succeeded by his son Shapur I, who was victorious over Roman Emperor Valerian and ruled until 272.
		The next reign of importance was that of Shapur II (309–79), a period of particular significance and glory.
		The Armenians were overwhelmed by Yazdagird II in 451, and their land was overrun by Sassanians under Khosrow I, who reigned 531–79 and who also invaded Syria.
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	Sasanian Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ardashir I, a king of Persis, defeats the Parthian king Artabanos IV and two years later is crowned as the first Sasanian king in 226 AD.
		His son, Shapur I, expands the borders to include all of modern Iran and parts of Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and the Gulf Coast of the Arabian peninsula.
		Kavad II - Ardashir III - Khusro III
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	ARDASHIR - LoveToKnow Article on ARDASHIR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One of these, gr Artaxerxes or ARDASHIR I. (in his Greek inscriptions he calls ti mself Artaxares, and the same form occurs in Agathias ii.
		Ardashir extirpated the whole race of the Arsacids, with exception of those princes who had found refuge in Armenia, ci in many wars, in which, however, as the Persian tradition)ws, he occasionally suffered heavy defeats, he succeeded in)jugating the greater part of Iran, Susiana and Babylonia.
		Under the tombs of Darius I. at Persepolis, on the surface of rock, Ardashir has sculptured his image and that of the god,uramazda (Ormuzd or Ormazd).
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	Persia
		Abbas II (1632-1667) Shah of Persia 1642-67, the son of Safi I and the great-grandson of Abbas I. He received various embassies from Europe and recaptured Kandahar 1648, which had been lost by his predecessor to the Mogul emperors.
		Ardashir's father made himself ruler of a district in Persia as vassal of the Arsacid king of Parthia.
		Ardashir then assumed the title of king of kings and tried to rebuild a unified Persian empire after the model of the ancient Achaemenids.
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	AllRefer.com - Ardashir II, Iran History (Iranian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Ardashir II king of Persia (379–83), of the Sassanid, or Sassanian, dynasty.
		A provincial governor under Shapur II, he succeeded to the throne.
		He earned popularity by remitting taxes, but his rule was weak, and he was deposed in favor of his nephew, Shapur III.
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		The Sassanid era began in earnest in 228, when the Shah Ardashir I destroyed the Parthian Empire which had held sway over the region for centuries.
		It was their long sought-after goal to reunify all of the old empire, and this brought them into frequent wars against the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire.
		Shah Khosrau II (Kasrâ in Persian) fleetingly achieved this goal in a series of wars against the Byzantine Empire between 602 and 616, conquering Egypt, Syria and Palestine.
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	Persians - History for Kids!
		Ardashir was a weak king, and a lot of the conquered countries revolted while Ardashir was king.
		Ardashir did manage to stay on good terms with the Jews, by letting them practice their religion, as Ezra and Nehemiah say in the Bible.
		Ardashir III was a stronger king than his ancestors had been, and managed to reconquer Egypt in 342 BC.
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	Ardashir II -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		During the reign of his brother Shapur II, he had been king of Adiabene (now a region of northeast Iraq), where he took part in the persecution of Christians.
		Bhaskara II was born in 1114 in Biddur, India.
		Mohammad II (Mehmed the Conqueror) (1432–81), Ottoman sultan, born in Adrianople (now Edirne); during rule (1444–46 and 1451–81), captured Constantinople and thus completed the Ottoman destruction of the Byzantine Empire; fourth son of Murad II; restored and repopulated Constantinople after capture in 1453; reorganized Ottoman administration, codified laws, encouraged scholarship...
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	Ardashir II of Persia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ardeshir II is believed to be standing here in this relief at Kermanshah, Iran.
		Ardashir II was king of Persia from 379-383.
		Under the reign of his brother Shapur II he had been governor-king of Adiabene, where he persecuted the Christians.
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	Tanabe - Identification of the King of Kings in Taq-i Bustan - Transoxiana Eran ud Aneran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		However, the crown-type concerned is similar to that of Peroz, Khusraw II, Ardashir III and Yazdgard III (632-651).
		However, this monument is not meant exclusively for the glorification of Ardashir III but more generally for the re-establishment of the Sasanian kingship which was threatened by the destruction of Takht-i Taqdîs by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius in 624.
		Therefore the ground design of this monument was decided during the reign of Ardashir III and eventually his royal effigy was adopted simply as the representative one by the designers in order to visualize the Sasanian kingship which had been symbolized by the so-called Takht-i Taqdîs destroyed by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius in 623/624.
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	Media, Persia, Parthia, & Iran
		The peace that was then hastily made by the Emperor Jovian advanced the Persian frontier and gave the Sassanids the upper hand over Armenia, which by 428 had become a Persian province.
		The brilliant counter-invasion of Iran, from 623-628, by the Emperor Heraclius, however, undid all of this and resulted in the overthrown of Khusro and a period of anarchy.
		In World War II Iranian neutrality, and what may have been Rez.â's sympathy for Germany, led to the Russians and British occupying the country and deposing the Shâh.
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	Sassanid dynasty - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Although the Kushan empire declined at the end of the 3rd century, leading to the rise to power of an indigenous Indian dynasty, the Guptas, in the 4th century, it is clear that Sassanian influence remained relevant in the north-west.
		Khosrau II came close to achieving the Sassanid dream of restoring the Achaemenid boundaries when Jerusalem fell to him and Constantinople was under his siege in 626.
		After the death of Khosrau II, and over a period of 14 years and twelve successive kings, the Sassanid Empire weakened considerably, and the power of the central authority passed into the hands of the generals.
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	Sassanid
		Sassanid (also Sassanian or Sasanian Dynasty) was the name given to the kings of Persia during the era of the second Persian Empire, from 224 until 651, when the last Sassanid shah, III of Persia">Yazdegerd III, lost a 14-year struggle to drive out the Islamic Saracens.
		Shah II of Persia"> Khosrau II (Kasrâ in persian) fleetingly achieved this goal in a series of wars against the Byzantine Empire between 602 and 616, conquering Egypt, Syria and Palestine.
		II of Persia">Bahram II from 276 to 293.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/List of ancient Persians
		Cyrus II the Great, son of Cambyses I, ruled from c.
		Artaxerxes II, his son, ruled 404 - 358 BC (see also Xenophon).
		The epigraphic evidence for the rulers before Cyrus the Great is highly suspect, and often considered to have been invented by Darius I.
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	Ardashir II — Infoplease.com
		He earned popularity by remitting taxes, but his rule was weak, and he was deposed in favor of his nephew, Shapur III.
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		Diplomacy gone to seed: a history of Byzantine foreign relations, A.D. (International Journal of Kurdish Studies)
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	Persia Genealogy
		ARDASHIR II 379-383 deposed, brother of Shapur II.
		YAZDEGERD II (or YZDKRT II) 438-457, son of Vaharan V. 457-459, son of Yazdegerd II.
		ARDASHIR III 628-630 assassinated, grandson of Khosrow II.
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	List of kings of Persia biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Darius II, his half-brother and rival, ruled 424 - 404 BC.
		The epigraphic evidence for these rulers is highly suspect, and often considered to have been invented by Darius I.
		Mu'izz ad-Din Malik Shah II Ghiyath ad-Din Mehmed I Tapar (Muhammad) 1105-1118
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	ardashir ii%0D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		believed to be the tombs of Darius I and II, Xerxes, and his son Artaxerxes were cut...
		II A similar legend concerning a worm that, in the keeping of a...
		References to the Karnamak (Gesta of Ardashir) are from SANJANA 1896.
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	SassanianEmpire.htm
		Sasanian dynasty was named after Sassan, an ancestor of Ardashir I.
		Ardashir I was the ruler of Persis, a vassal state of Parthians.
		War with the Romans was a constant feature of Sasanian Empire during Ardashir I reign and many that followed.
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	Sassanid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Head of king Shapur II (Sassanian dynasty 4th century).
		Rostam-e Farokhzad : The last great general of Sassanids, though unsuccessful to repel invading muslim arabs but he is considered to be a hero in Iranian folklore and history.
		However, Khosrau II had overextended his army and overtaxed the people.
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	Online Knowledge Explorer®/Encyclopedia Americana® (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Succession to the throne among the early Parthian rulers frequently had followed the nomadic principle of choosing the brother or a mature relative of the king, rather than the son, especially if he were young.
		One by one the feudal lords submitted to him or were defeated in battle and replaced by Ardashir's sons or relatives.
		Loyalty to the dynasty was the chief factor in the success of Khosrow II, who rewarded the Byzantines by ceding to them some land and towns on the frontier.
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	Ardashir II of Persia - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ardashir II of Persia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ardashir II of Persia - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ardashir II of Persia.
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	TANABE - Ardashir III restated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		However, the crown-type concerned is similar to that of Peroz, Khusraw II, Ardashir III and Yazdgard III.
		However, this monument is not meant exclusively for the glorification of Ardashir III but more generally for the re-establishment of the Sasanian kingship which was threatened by the destruction of Takht-i Taqdis by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius in 624.
		Therefore the sculpturing work continued after the murder of Ardashir III in 630 and came to an end probably by the Arab invasion in around 637.
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	All words on List of kings of Persia
		Cyrus II the Great, son of Cambyses I, ruled from c.550 - 530 BC.
		Smerdis, his alleged brother, ruled 521 BC Darius the Great, his brother-in-law and grandson of Arsames, ruled 521 -486 BC.
		The epigraphic evidence for the rulers before Cyrus the Great is highly suspect, and often considered to have been invented by Darius I. Macedonian Dynasty
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	PERSEPOLIS AND ANCIENT IRAN - ROCK RELIEFS
		Another relief at Naqsh-i-Rajab depicts the investiture of Shapur I (241-72 A.D.), son and successor of Ardashir I. In an adjoining relief Shapur I is shown on horseback, followed by nine court attendants on foot.
		To the right of this scene is another inscription by Kartir, attesting to the victory and triumph of the Persian king over the Roman army-an unparalleled event in the reign of Shapur I. The rest of the Naqsh-i-Rustam rock reliefs deal mainly with equestrian scenes, showing various kings, e.
		Naqsh-i-Rajab - Relief Depicting the Investiture of Ardashir II by the God Hormizd, Bust and Inscription of Kartir beyond the Left End of the Scene, P 57380
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	Iransaga - Persian Art, The Sassanians
		The earliest known Sassanian rock carvings are those at Firuzabad, attributed to the beginning of Ardashir I's reign and still bound to the conventions of Parthian art.
		One relief, carved on a rock wall at the Tang-i-Ab gorge near the Firuzabad plain, consists of three separate dueling scenes that express vividly the Iranian concept of battle as a series of individual engagements.
		The subjects most often portrayed on silver dishes included royal hunts, ceremonial scenes, the king enthroned or banqueting, dancers, and scenes of a religious character.
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	Sasanian
		The date on this coin is from year 'pncsyh', or 35, of Khusro II's reign.
		Ardashir I: 224-241 (Son of Papak, who was son of Sanan)
		Ardashir II: 379-383 (Brother, son or nephew of Shapur II)
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	History of Iran: Sassanid Empire
		The reign of Khosro II (591-628 CE) was characterized by the wasteful splendor and lavishness of the court.
		Toward the end of his reign Khosro II's power declined.
		Hormoz II Shapur II Ardashir II Shapur III
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	Taq-é Bostan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the smaller of the two grottos, there are reliefs of Shahpur II and Shahpur III.
		The entrance to the larger grotto is decorated in a Tree of Life pattern, with a royal crescent flanked by two winged figures depicted in the centre of the arch.
		Within the grotto are a number of beautiful bas-reliefs including the investiture of either Khosraw II or King Peroz (authorities are divided), a king riding his charger and two royal hunting trips, one a boar hunt, the other a stag hunt.
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