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	Persia
		Persia proper is bounded on the north by Transcaucasia, the Caspian Sea, and Russian Turkestan; on the south by the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf; it is over one-fifth as large as the United States (excluding Alaska) and twice as large as Germany, having an area of about 642,000 square miles.
		Bahram III, son of Bahram II, reigned only eight months, and was succeeded by his younger brother, Narsi I, who renewed the war with Rome with Disastrous results.
		On his arrival in Persia, Mgr Cluzel was immediately acknowledged by the shah, decorated with the insignia of the Lion and Sun, and officially confirmed, by a special imperial firman, as the representative of the Father of the Faithful.
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	EZGeography - Bahram I of Persia
		Bahram I, was king of Persia (AD From a Pahlavi inscription we learn that he was the son (not, as the Greek authors and Tabari say, the grandson) of Shapur I., and succeeded his brother Hormizd I, who had only reigned a year.
		Bahram I is the king who, by the instigation of the magians, put to a cruel death the prophet Mani, the founder of Manichaeism.
		Bahram is also the Persian name for the planet Mars.
	www.ezgeography.com /encyclopedia/Bahram_I (122 words)

	Bahram V of Persia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bahram V, king of Persia (420-439), also called "Bahram Gur",son of Yazdegerd I, after whose sudden death (or assassination) he gained the crown against the opposition of the grandees by the help of, the Arabic dynast of Hira.
		Bahram's mother was Soshandukht, the daughter of the Jewish Exilarch.
		Bahram deposed the vassal king of the Persian part of Armenia and made it a province.
	butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Bahram_V_of_Persia (339 words)

	gordian ii - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Gordian Ii right Marcus Antonius Gordianus Sempronianus Romanus Africanus (around 192 - April 12 238), known in English as Gordian II, was Roman emperor during the year of 238.
		Pushed by the local politicians, Gordian's father began a revolt against Maximinus in 238, and became Gordian I on March 22.
		Gordian II gathered his troops and faced the enemies, but the battle was lost and he was killed during the fight.
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	Khosrau II of Persia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bahram Chobin was beaten and fled to the Turkics, among whom he was murdered.
		He was haughty and cruel, rapacious and given to luxury; he was neither a general nor an administrator.
		Khosrau fled from his favourite residence, Dastagei (near Baghdad), without offering resistance; and as his despotism and indolence had roused opposition everywhere, his eldest son Kavadh II, whom Khosrau had imprisoned, was set free by some of the leading men and proclaimed king.
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	MSN Encarta - Persia
		For convention's sake the name of Persia is here kept for that part of the country's history concerned with the ancient Persian Empire until the Arab conquest in the 7th century ad.
		A particularly significant accomplishment of his reign was the establishment of Zoroastrianism as the official religion of Persia.
		The Romans defeated Bahram in 422; by the terms of the peace treaty the Romans promised toleration for the Zoroastrians within their realm in return for similar treatment of Christians in Persia.
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	Encyclopedia: Khosrau II of Persia
		Events Khusro II of Persia overthrown Pippin of Landen becomes Mayor of the Palace Brahmagupta writes the Brahmasphutasiddhanta Births Deaths Empress Suiko of Japan Theodelinda, queen of the Lombards Categories: 628...
		Kavadh II Sheroe (Siroes), king of Persia, son of Khosrau II, was raised to the throne in opposition to his father in February 628, after the great victories of the emperor Heraclius.
		Hormizd IV, son of Khosrau I, reigned as king of Persia from 578 to 590.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Khosrau-II-of-Persia (1506 words)

	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.
		Abbas III (1732-1736) Shah of Persia 1732-36, the son of Tahmasp II.
		Grandson of Yazdegerd I and son of Bahram V; zealous Zoroastrian; persecuted Christians and Jews; at war with Rome (442); also fought in the east against the Kushans and Kidarites; succeeded in turn by sons Hormizd III and FiruzYazdegerd II.
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		Bahadur Shah II (1775-1862) aka Bahadur Shah Zafar (Zafar was his nom de plume, or takhallus, as an Urdu poet) was the last of the Mughal emperors in India.
		Preceded by:Bahram II Sassanid Ruler Succeeded by:Narseh This a..
		Bahram V, king of Persia (420-439), son of Yazdegerd I, after whose sudden death (or assassination) he gained the crown against the opposition of the grandees by the help of al-Mondhir, the Arabic dynast of Hira.
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	Timeline Persia
		413BC Darius II, ruler of Persia, quelled a revolt in Lydia.
		The Sassanid kings of Persia (who had superseded the Parthians in the Empire of Iran) secured the lion's share of the spoils, while the Romans only received a strip of country on the western border which gave them Erzeroum and Diyarbekir for their frontier fortresses.
		1828 Russia conquered the Armenian provinces of Persia, and this brought within her frontier the Monastery of Etchmiadzin, in the Khanate of Erivan, which was the seat of the Katholikos of All the Armenians.
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	Sassanid Dynasty articles and news from Start Learning Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Under Shapur's successors Bahram I (273-276) and Bahram II (276-293) the Manichaeism, which found also in the Roman realm was pursued.
		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.
		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 Sassanid influence remained relevant in the north-west of India.
	www.startlearningnow.com /Sassanid\|Sassanids.htm (3756 words)

	Narseh of Persia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Narseh (also known as Narses, Narseus) was king of Persia (292 - 303), and son of Shapur I.
		He rose as pretender to the throne against his grand-nephew Bahram III in AD 292, and soon became sole king.
		Narses died in 303 and was succeeded by his son Hormizd II.
	www.information-and-answers.com /resource-Narseh_of_Persia.html (106 words)

	List of people by name: Ba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bahram V of Persia, (420-439), from 420 to 438.
		VI of Persia">Bahram VI of Persia[?], from 590 to 591.
		II of Jerusalem">Baldwin II of Jerusalem, (died 1131)
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	Frye. Heritage of Persia
		At Sar Mashhad Bahram II is shown killing a lion while protecting his queen, and behind her is probably Kartir.
		In the reign of Varahran II he received the rank of nobility, the headship of the religion, and was made chief judge of the empire, and chief of the royal fire at Istakhr at the imperial shrine of Anahita.
		Under Shapur II, who had an unusually long rule of seventy years, the Sasanians passed to the offensive both in the west and in the east where the Kushan state and other territories probably had proclaimed their independence during the minority of Shapur.
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	The Persians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Centered on the Persian homeland on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf, it stretched from present-day Pakistan in the east to the Balkan Peninsula in the west and from the Persian Gulf in the south to Central Asia in the north.
		His grandson Khosrau II reigned from 590 to 628; in 602 he began a long war against the Byzantine Empire and by 619 had conquered almost all southwestern Asia Minor and Egypt.
		The last of the Sassanid kings was Yazdegerd III, during whose reign (632-651) the Arabs invaded Persia, destroyed all resistance, gradually replaced Zoroastrianism with Islam, and incorporated Persia into the caliphate.
	history-world.org /persians.htm (3477 words)

	Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With the fragmentation of the Timurid Empire, and the subsequent extension of control over western Persia to the Horde of the Black Sheep, the region between the Persian Gulf and the Zagros Mountains fell into the hands of the Musha'aha'ids.
		A Shiite millenarian movement, the chiefs of the Musha'sha'ids proclaimed themselves to be the Manifestation or Precursor to the Expected One (the hoped-for successor to the line of Shite religious leaders) - and on a less spiritual level they provided governance and defence against the Turkoman Hordes who dominated western Iran in the 15th century.
		He was defeated and killed by Arsaces I. Nevertheless, Khurasan itself was retained by the Seleucids for another two generations before the general sweep of eastern Iran by the Parthians.
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	Persia: The Sassanids: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ardashir I, son of Papak and a descendant of Sasan, was the ruler of one of the several small states into which Persia had gradually been divided.
		Coins thus exist showing Ardashir together with his son as heir apparent and Shapur alone wearing the eagle cap, indicating the exercise of royal rule before his coronation--besides the normal series of Shapur crowned as king.
		Shortly after his accession, Shapur was faced with an invasion of Persia by the emperor Gordian III (238-244):
	www.juyayay.com /outline/persia/politics03.html (1411 words)

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		The name Persia (from the ancient province of Persis; modern Fars, Iran) was given by the Greeks to the entire land occupied by various Iranian tribes from which the ACHAEMENID dynasty arose.
		It is the land of present-day IRAN and AFGHANISTAN, geographically the Iranian plateau.
		Khosru II tried to reestablish the frontiers of the Achaemenid empire, but initial success was followed by defeat at the hands of the Byzantine emperor HERACLIUS and assassination.
	www.jmu.edu /orgs/persianclub/newpage/persia_art.htm (1543 words)

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		Bahram II of Persia, (277-294), from 276 to 293
		Bahram IV of Persia, (389-399), from 388 to 399
		Bahram VI of Persia, from 590 to 591
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	History of Iran: Sassanid Empire
		Shapur II (ruled 309-379 CE) regained the lost territories, however, in three successive wars with the Romans.
		The reign of Khosro II (591-628 CE) was characterized by the wasteful splendor and lavishness of the court.
		The threat came from the small disciplined armies of Khalid ibn Walid, once one of Mohammad's chosen companion-in-arms and now, after the Prophet's death, the leader of the Arab army.
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	Forbidden City . Beijing . Qing Dynasty . Starbucks . 1644 . 1924 . Ten thousand years . Zhongnanhai . 2004
		The genus Arctostaphylos, the manzanitas and bearberries, are shrubs or small trees characterised by smooth, orange or red bark and stiff, twisting branches.
		During World War II, Halmahera was the site of a Japanese military base at Kaoe Bay.
		Patriarch Probus Probus succeeds Patriarch Rufinus I Rufinus as Patriarch of Constantinople Sassanid dynasty Sassanid Shah Bahram III of Persia Bahram III succeeds Bahram II of Persia Bahram II.
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	Persia Genealogy
		Sep 272 - Sep 273, son of Shapur I. VAHARAN I (or BAHRAM I) Sept 273 - Sep 276, son of Shapur I. (or BAHRAM II) Sep 276-293, son of Vaharan I. (or BAHRAM III) late 293 deposed, son of Vaharan II.
		SHAPUR II 309-379, posthumous son of Hormizd II (succeeded at birth).
		YAZDEGERD II (or YZDKRT II) 438-457, son of Vaharan V. 457-459, son of Yazdegerd II.
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		Centuries: 2nd century - 3rd century - 4th centuryDecades: 220s 230s 240s 250s 260s - 270s - 280s 290s 310s 320s 330sYears: 271 272 273 274 275 - 276 - 277 278 279 280 281 EventsSassanid Shah II of Persia">Bahram II succeeded Bahram I. Centuries: 2nd century - 3rd century - 4th century
		Sassanid Shah II of Persia">Bahram II succeeded Bahram I.
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	Persia's Periodisation
		Periods of Persia's History, dates (an improved version with Islamic and Christian dates would be welcome)
		Kavadh (Qobad) II Shiruye (Siroes), 628 - 630
		Shah Soleyman II (Mir Sayyed Mohammad), 1749 - 1750
	www.pierre-marteau.com /resources/persia-periods.html (77 words)

	Bahram II of Persia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bahram II of Persia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Bahram II, (Click link for more info and facts about king of Persia) king of Persia ((Click link for more info and facts about 277) 277- (Click link for more info and facts about 294) 294), son of (Click link for more info and facts about Bahram I) Bahram I.
		(Click link for more info and facts about Bahram I) Bahram I
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/bahram_ii_of_persia1.htm (120 words)

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