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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Khosrau I of Persia
		Khosrau I, "the Blessed" (Anushirvan), (531-579) was the favourite son and successor of Kavadh I, and the most famous of the Sassanid kings.
		Khosrau united with them and conquered Bactria, while he left the country north of the Oxus to the Turks.
		During the negotiations with the emperor Tiberius, Khosrau died in 579, and was succeeded by his son Hormizd IV.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/kh/Khosrau_I_of_Persia (640 words)

	Khosrau II of Persia
		Khosrau II, "the Victorious" (Parvez), king of Persia, son of Hormizd IV, grandson of Khosrau I, 590-628.
		But at the same time the general Bahram Chobin[?] had proclaimed himself king, and Khosrau II was not able to maintain himself.
		Many leading men and part of the troops acknowledged Khosrau, and in 591 he was brought back to Ctesiphon.
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		Khosrau I, (Chosroes I in classical sources, most commonly known in Persian as Anooshiravan also spelled Anushirvan, Persian: Ø§ÙÙØ´ÙØ±ÙØ§Ù meaning the immortal soul), also known as Anooshiravan the Just (Ø§ÙÙØ´ÛØ±ÙØ§Ù Ø¹Ø§Ø¯Ù, Anooshiravan-e-Ädel) (ruled 531–579), was the favourite son and successor of Kavadh I (488–531), and the most famous and celebrated of the Sassanid Kings.
		Although Khosrau I had in the last years of his father extirpated the heretical and "communistic" Persian sect of the Mazdakites (see Kavadh I of Persia), he was a sincere adherent of Zoroastrian orthodoxy and even ordered that the religion's holy text, the Avesta be codified, but he was not fanatical or prone to persecution.
		Khosrau I introduced a rational system of taxation, based upon a survey of landed possessions, which his father had begun, and tried in every way to increase the welfare and the revenues of his empire.
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	KHOSRAU I OF PERSIA : Encyclopedia Entry
		During Khosrau I's ambitious reign art and science flourished in Persia and the Sassanid empire was in its peak of glory and prosperity.
		Although Khosrau I had in the last years of his father extirpated the heretical and communistic Persian sect of the Mazdakites (see Kavadh I of Persia), he was a sincere adherent of Zoroastrian orthodoxy and even ordered that the religion's holy text, the Avesta be codified, but he was not fanatical or prone to persecution.
		Khosrau I introduced a rational system of taxation, based upon a survey of landed possessions, which his father had begun, and tried in every way to increase the welfare and the revenues of his empire.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Khosrau_I_of_Persia (914 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Persia
		Persia was invaded by Cassius, the Roman consul.
		Persia, resigned in 1845, and was succeeded, in 1848, by Joseph Audo, who died in 1878, and was succeeded by Elia Abbolionan, who died in 1894 and was succeeded by Ebedjesus Khayyat, after whose death at Bagdad, in 1899, the patriarchal dignity was conferred in 1900 upon the present incumbent, Joseph Emanuel.
		Persia was raised to the dignity of an
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11712a.htm (13488 words)

	Khosrau II of Persia
		Khosrau II, "the Victorious" (Parvez), king of Persia, son of Hormizd IV, grandson of Khosrau I, 590-628.
		Many leading men and part of the troops acknowledged Khosrau, and in 591 he was brought back to Ctesiphon.
		Chosroes fled from his favourite residence, Dastagei1 (near Bagdad), without offering resistance, and as his despotism and indolence had roused opposition everywhere, his eldest son, Kavadh II, whom he had imprisoned, was set free by some of the leading men and proclaimed king.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/k/kh/khosrau_ii_of_persia.html (478 words)

	Persia - MSN Encarta
		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.
		His son and successor, Khosrau I, in two wars with the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, extended his sway to the Black Sea and the Caucasus, becoming the most powerful of all Sassanid kings.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564512/Persia.html (1144 words)

	Khosrau I - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Considered one of Persia’s greatest rulers, Khosrau I is depicted in the center of this contemporary decorative plate.
		In 531 he began a series of battles with the Byzantine Empire that led to the expansion of Persia’s borders.
		Khosrau also streamlined government administration and reformed the tax system.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461530942_761564512_-1_1/Khosrau_I.html (48 words)

	Khosrau II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Image:Khosrau I Textile.jpg Khosrau II (Chosroes II in classical sources, sometimes called Parvez, "the ever Victorious" – in Persian: خسرو پرویز) was a King of Persia, son of Hormizd IV (579–590), grandson of Khosrau I (531–579).
		Khosrau II was raised to the throne by the magnates who had rebelled against Hormizd IV, who soon after had his father blinded and killed.
		Khosrau II is also remembered to be one of the powerful kings of the Persian Empire to whom Mohammed had sent messengers to preach the religion of Islam, like he sent messengers to other emperors near the Arabian Peninsula.
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	Heraclius
		The Persian King Khosrau II, who had been an ally of Maurice, used his death as an excuse to launch a war against the Byzantines.
		Khosrau had at his court a man who claimed to be Maurice's son Theodosius, and Khosrau demanded that the Byzantines accept him as Emperor.
		When Khosrau still refused to make peace, Heraclius continued his campaign; as he approached the Persian capital of Ctesiphon, the Persian aristocracy deposed Khosrau.
	www.themiddleages.net /people/heraclius.html (1219 words)

	Khosrau II of Persia - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
		Khosrau II, "the Victorious" (''Parvez''), king of Persia, son of Hormizd IV, grandson of Khosrau I, 590 - 628.
		Many leading men and part of the troops acknowledged Khosrau, and in 591 he was brought back to Ctesiphon.
		Khosrau fled from his favourite residence, Dastagei (near Bagdad), 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.
	www.indexsuche.com /Khosrau_II_of_Persia.html (480 words)

	6th century
		This Buddhist stela from China, Northern Wei period, was built in the early 6th century.
		The first academy of the east the Academy of Gundeshapur founded in Iran by Khosrau I of Persia.
		Chess, as chaturanga, entered Persia from India and was modified to shatranj.
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	Byzantine Empire - Crystalinks
		The conquests in West meant the other parts of the Empire were left almost unguarded, although Justinian was a great builder of fortifications throughout all his reign and the Byzantine territories.
		The Balkans were subjected to repeated incursions, where Slavs had first crossed the imperial frontiers during the reign of Justin I, taking advantage of the sparsely-deployed Byzantine troops to press on as far as the Gulf of Corinth.
		The Avars and later the Bulgars overwhelmed much of the Balkans, and in the early 7th century the Persians invaded and conquered Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Armenia.
	www.crystalinks.com /byzantine.html (3016 words)

	Shahrbaraz, the Great Boar of Persia
		Shahrbaraz was a general, with the rank of Spahbodh (field-marshal), in the Persian army under Khosrau II of Persia.
		Shahrbaraz was a general, with the rank of Spahbodh (field-marshal), in the Persian army under Khosrau II of Persia (590—628).
		The new ruler was Purandokht, daughter of the King Khosrau II of Persia and one of only two women on the throne of the Sassanid dynasty.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Article/802250 (897 words)

	Khosrau II of Persia - Definition, explanation
		Khosrau fled to Syria, and persuaded the emperor Maurice to send help.
		Bahram Chobin was beaten and fled to the Turkics, among whom he was murdered.
		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.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/k/kh/khosrau_ii_of_persia.php (505 words)

	Khosrau I - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Considered one of Persia’s greatest rulers, Khosrau I is depicted in the center of this contemporary decorative plate.
		In 531 he began a series of battles with the Byzantine Empire that led to the expansion of Persia’s borders.
		Khosrau also streamlined government administration and reformed the tax system.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /media_461530942/Khosrau_I.html (57 words)

	Khosrau I Summary
		During Khosrau I's ambitious reign art and science flourished in Persia and the Sassanid empire was in its peak of glory and prosperity.
		Although Khosrau I had in the last years of his father extirpated the heretical and communistic Persian sect of the Mazdakites (see Kavadh I of Persia), he was a sincere adherent of Zoroastrian orthodoxy and even ordered that the religion's holy text, the Avesta be codified, but he was not fanatical or prone to persecution.
		Khosrau I introduced a rational system of taxation, based upon a survey of landed possessions, which his father had begun, and tried in every way to increase the welfare and the revenues of his empire.
	www.bookrags.com /Khosrau_I (1585 words)

	Persia - IBWiki
		The Caliphate used Persia as something of a staging post for their expansions into Afghanistan and India (also enslaving many Turkic peoples and taking them back to Baghdad to serve as cavalry troops) but had little effect on the mass of the people.
		Persia slowly became a feudal theocracy: there was no separation of religion and state; the Shāhānshāh was held to be divinely ordained head of both, while the Mobadān Mobad weilded the real power.
		Persia's economy is a mixture of central planning, state ownership of oil and other large enterprises, village agriculture, and private trading and service ventures, combining to make the nation an economic powerhouse rivalling its western counterparts.
	ib.frath.net /w/Persia (3988 words)

	Khosrau I of Persia - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Khosrau I, "the Blessed" (Anushirvan), (531 - 579) was the favourite son and successor of Kavadh I, and the most famous of the Sassanid kings.
		His brothers contested his claim, so Khosrau had them killed.
		Meanwhile in the east the Hephthalites had been attacked by the Turks (Gokturks).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Khosrau_I (621 words)

	A General History of the Near East, Chapter 8
		Khosrau opened the passes of the Caucasus to bring in barbarians from Russia, and got promises of aid from the Roman and Kushan empires.
		Persia came to the brink of disaster under Peroz (457-484), whose reign was contemporary with the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
		Khosrau took pity on them by inserting a clause into a later peace treaty with Justinian, giving them the right to return and ensuring that they would not be molested for their paganism or their temporary pro-Persian behavior.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /neareast/ne08.html (11774 words)

	National Museum Of Damascus ( Syria ) - Hall Of Arabic Coinage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		To the Arabs, the word Khosrau is identified with Caesar of the Romans and both words mean the great King.
		There are two kings in Persia of this name : Khosrau I (531 - 579 A.D.) and Khosrau II (590 - 628 A.D.) Later on, during the period of decadence, there were three kings of the same name, but they were not famous.
		The Sassanid coins, since the reign of Khosrau, bear on the obverse a portrait of Khosrau turning his head towards his left shoulder.
	www.geocities.com /encyclopedia_damascena/arabicislamic/coinage.htm (2118 words)

	Khosrau I of Persia
		Khosrau I, "the immortal soul" (Anushirvan), (ruled 531-579) was the favourite son and successor of Kavadh I, and the most famous of the Sassanid kings.
		Although Khosrau had in the last years of his father extirpated the heretical and communistic Persian sect of the Mazdakites (see Kavadh), he was a sincere adherent of Zoroastrian orthodoxy and even ordered that the religion's holy text, the Avesta be codified, but he was not fanatical or prone to persecution.
		When one of his sons had rebelled about 550 and was taken prisoner, he did not execute him; nor did he punish the Christians who had supported him.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/kh/Khosrau%20I%20of%20Persia.htm (614 words)

	Khosrau I of Persia Article, KhosrauPersia Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		According to one account, Khosrau was the Kavadh's son through a peasant girl, and was originally considered unworthy ofinheriting his father's throne.
		Khosrau united with them andconquered Bactria, while he left the country north of the Oxus to the Turks.
		But they soon found out that neitherKhosrau nor his state corresponded to the Platonic ideal, and Khosrau, in his treaty withJustinian, stipulated that they should return unmolested.
	www.anoca.org /he/kavadh/khosrau_i_of_persia.html (627 words)

	The Persians
		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.
		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.
	history-world.org /persians.htm (3316 words)

	The Historical context of Islam, Chapter oneBell's Introduction to the Quran Revised by Montgomery Watt
		Taking advantage of the weakness of the Byzantines, Khosrau II of Persia commenced hostilities alleging as his pretext revenge for the murder of the emperor Maurice, from whom he had, at the beginning of his reign, received aid.
		Persia also gained control of a number of small towns on the eastern and southern coasts of Arabia.
		Meccan interest in the struggle of the two empires is reflected in a passage of the quran QurŸån [30.2/1-5/4], usually taken to be a prophecy of the final victory of the rum Rõm or Byzantines 2; and there may be one or two other references to the war.
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