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	EZGeography - Bahram I of Persia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	The Catholic Encyclopedia - Persia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Catholic_Encyclopedia/11712a.htm (15024 words)

	Encyclopedia: Narseh of Persia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Events Diocletian launched the last major persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire; Hierocles was said to have been the instigator of the fierce persecution of the Christians under February 24 - Galerius, Roman Emperor, publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Empire.
		Shapur I, son of Ardashir I, was king of Persia from 241 to 272.
		He rose as pretender to the throne against his grand-nephew Bahram III in AD 292, and soon became sole king.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Narseh-of-Persia (748 words)

	List of people by name: Ba-Bd - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bahram II of Persia, (277-294), from 276 to 293.
		Bahram V of Persia, (420-439), from 420 to 438.
		Bahram VI of Persia, from 590 to 591.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/List_of_people_by_name:_Ba-Bd (707 words)

	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.
		During the reign of Artaxerxes I, the second son of Xerxes, the Egyptians revolted, aided by the Greeks; although the revolt was finally suppressed in 446 bc, it signaled the first major assault against, and the beginning of the decline of, the Persian Empire.
		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.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761564512 (1124 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.
		In the course of his 6-year reign Darius III led the Persian army against the forces of Alexander the Great of Macedonia but was defeated at the battles of Issus in 333 bc and Gaugamela in 331.
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/persia.htm (3696 words)

	Bahram III of Persia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bahram III of Persia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Bahram III, (Click link for more info and facts about king of Persia) king of Persia, son of (Click link for more info and facts about Bahram II) Bahram II, under whose rule he had been governing Sejistan (therefore called Saganshah, (Click link for more info and facts about Agathias) Agathias iv.
		He reigned only four months (in (Click link for more info and facts about 294) 294), and was succeeded by the pretender (Click link for more info and facts about Narseh) Narseh.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/bahram_iii_of_persia2.htm (128 words)

	Kingdoms of Persia - Persia
		Persia is conquered by Greek Empire and is ruled from Antioch, in Syria.
		Persia is liberated from Seleucid Greek rule by tribesmen who have drifted down to Parthia and Bactria.
		The Safavids established Shi'ite Islam as a state religion of Persia, which became a major factor in the emergence of a unified national consciousness among the various ethnic and linguistic elements of the country.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsMiddEast/EasternPersia.htm (956 words)

	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.
		After The Sassanids came to power in Persia in 226 A.D. The second emperor, Shapur I (240-270), extended his authority eastwards into what is today Pakistan and northwestern India and the previously autonomous Kushans were obliged to accept his suzerainty.
		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)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bahram II, king of Persia (277-294), son of Bahram I. During his reign the emperor Carus attacked the Persians and conquered Ctesiphon (283), but died by the plague.
		Bahram I is the king who, by the instigation of the magians,..
		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.
	mutluyasam.info /browse.php?title=B/BA/BAH (2649 words)

	List of people by name: Ba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		II of Persia">Bahram II of Persia, (277-294), from 276 to 293.
		IV of Persia">Bahram IV of Persia, (389-399), from 388 to 399.
		VI of Persia">Bahram VI of Persia[?], from 590 to 591.
	www.city-search.org /li/list-of-people-by-name:-ba.html (615 words)

	Timeline Persia
		He failed in an attempted attack on Persia and was deserted by the Egyptians and Greek mercenaries.
		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.
	timelines.ws /countries/PERSIA.HTML (4211 words)

	The Persians
		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.
		Politically, they ended Persia’s expansion to the west and led to its loss of control of the western coast of Asia Minor (present-day Asian Turkey).
		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)

	Frye. Heritage of Persia
		At Naqsh-i Rajab accompanying the inscription is presumably the representation of Kartir himself with finger raised in a gesture of respect.
		At Sar Mashhad Bahram II is shown killing a lion while protecting his queen, and behind her is probably Kartir.
		Although there may be no causal connection it is interesting to note that as royal power declined in favour of the feudal lords, the heroic, or epic tales regarding the reigns of such kings as Varahran V or Bahram Gor (42I-439) the hunter of wild asses, increased or came to the fore.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/med/fryeheri.html (10494 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.
		Unfortunately for the Achaemenid empire, Artaxerxes III was poisoned, and a puppet Arses ruled for two years.
	www.jmu.edu /orgs/persianclub/newpage/persia_art.htm (1543 words)

	Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He ruled Persia through the boy for two years, but tremendous upheavals throughout the Empire disordered things so badly that he murdered Arses as well.
		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.
	ellone-loire.net /obsidian/iran.html (2841 words)

	Persia Genealogy
		PHRAATES III (or FARHAD III) 70 - 58 or 57 BC, son of Sanatruces.
		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.
		VAHARAN V (or BAHRAM V) 420-438, son of Yazdegerd I: known as "The Wild Ass".
	www.aoti76.dsl.pipex.com /iran_gen.htm (1076 words)

	Bahram II of Persia - Art History Online Reference and Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bahram II, king of Persia (277-294), son of Bahram I.
		During his reign the emperor Carus attacked the Persians and conquered Ctesiphon (283), but died by the plague.
		Of Bahram II’s reign some theological inscriptions exist (F Stolze and JC Andreas, Persepolis (Berlin, 1882), and EW West, "Pahiavi Literature" in Grundriss d.
	arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Bahram_II_of_Persia (95 words)

	Persia's Periodisation
		Periods of Persia's History, dates (an improved version with Islamic and Christian dates would be welcome)
		Cyrus the Great, Start of Achaemenid Empire, 559BC - 530BC
		Khalil (Western Persia 1409 - 1411), 1405 - 1409
	www.pierre-marteau.com /resources/persia-periods.html (77 words)

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