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	c. Shapur II to the Reforms of Khusrau I. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		His successor, Julian, invaded Persia, forced the passage of the Tigris, defeated the Persians north of Ctesiphon but retreated before investing that city, and was mortally wounded in a battle near Samarra (363).
		Peroz, the elder son of Yazdgird, defeated the usurper Hormizd with the help of the Hephthalites.
		Balash was assassinated and succeeded by the son of Peroz, Kavad.
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	Peroz I of Persia - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Peroz attempted to maintain a peace with the Byzantine Empire and he was reasonably successful.
		Once he was himself taken prisoner and had to give his son Kavadh as hostage to the Ephtalites for two years until he was able to pay a heavy ransom.
		Once Kavadh was free, Peroz broke his treaty with the Epthalites and advanced with a large army.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Peroz_I_of_Persia (258 words)

	Pirooz in China
		The great spirit of Persia is now in China, and all the Chinese people appreciate it.
		I know that the style was brought into Persia by Chinese artisans during Mongol (Ilkhan Period) in the 13th cent.
		There is even a tradition in Armenia, that says one of their lordly families (the Mamikonians) were originally descended from Chinese princes who fled to Persia and sought refuge after an unsuccessful rebellion in China.
	www.chinapage.com /minority/iran.html (1205 words)

	Peroz I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peroz I was the son of Yazdegerd II of Persia (438–457).
		Peroz I attempted to maintain a peace with the Byzantine Empire and he was reasonably successful.
		He raised Balash of Persia (484–488), one of Peroz I's brothers, to the throne.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peroz_I_of_Persia (313 words)

	Kavadh I of Persia
		Kavadh I, son of Peroz, was a Sassanid king, crowned by the nobles in 488 in place of his uncle Balash, who was deposed and blinded.
		At this time the empire was utterly disorganized by the invasion of the Ephthalites[?] or White Huns from the east.
		After one of their victories against Peroz, Kavadh had been a hostage among them during two years, pending the payment of a heavy ransom.
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	Peroz I of Persia
		27; the modern form of the name is Feroz, Firuz), Sassanid king of Persia, AD 457-484, son of Yazdegerd II.
		The Ephthalites invaded and plundered Persia for two years, till at last a noble Persian from the old family of Karen, Zarmihr (or Sokhra), restored some degree of order.
		He raised Balash, a brother of Peroz, to the throne.
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	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 (946 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Narseh of Persia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Narseh (whose name is also sometimes written as Narses or Narseus) was a Sassanian King of Persia (292 - 303), and son of Shapur I.
		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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Narseh-of-Persia (749 words)

	Peroz I of Persia
		27; the modern form of the name is Feroz, Firuz), Sassanid king of Persia, AD 457-484, son of Yazdegerd II.
		The Ephthalites invaded and plundered Persia for two years, till at last a noble Persian from the old family of Karen, Zarmihr (or Sokhra), restored some degree of order.
		He raised Balash, a brother of Peroz, to the throne.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/pe/peroz_i_of_persia.html (223 words)

	Loeb biblical family tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Yazadagerd King Of Persia married Sashandukht Bat Abba --Her father was Mar Abba Babylonian Exilarch--this line goes to King David's son Nathan
		Khusru II Parvis King of Persia (Chosroes II) married Miriam (daughter of Flavius Tiberius Mauricus and Constantina).
		Izdundad "Princess Of Persia" married Bustanai-Babylonian Exilarch Yazdegerd III
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	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.
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	Goths, Franks, and Justinian's Empire 476-610 by Sanderson Beck
		Persia had suffered from the wars and famines, and in the economic hardship Kavadh tried to borrow money from Anastasius to no avail.
		The truce with Persia was renewed for another five years as the Romans agreed to pay 2600 pounds of gold, though the hostilities in Lazica were not affected.
		Persia also agreed to tolerate Christians and their burial practices, and they were to be free of persecution by the Magi; but they had to refrain from proselytizing.
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	1.4.3.2 The Middle Sasanian Kingdom
		During the Middle Sasanian Kingdom, Persia and the Byzantine Empire were mostly at peace.
		Persia had problems on its eastern frontier, and the Byzantines were menaced by the Slavs, Avars and other steppe nomads.
		In 590 the Byzantines defeated the Persian army and its commander was disgraced.
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	Babel: Articles - RSS Feed Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Peroz I was a king of the Sassanian dynasty of Persia.
		With the assistance of the Hephthalites, Peroz was able to defeat and kill his brother in 459 A.D. Peroz committed terrible atrocities in trying to maintain his rule.
		Peroz received financial help from the Romans to pay for his campaigns against the Hephthalites.
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		III, lost a 14-year struggle to drive out the Islamic Saracens.
		..., king of Persia (420 - 439), son of
		He rebelled against his brother Hormizd III, and in 459...
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	Manichaen Input to Chinese Culture and Art
		Little attention, however, is paid to Manichaeism and the manner in which it spread to the east including Chinese Turkistan (now Xinjiang, i.e., the "new territory" in its Chinese name) and China, particularly the coastal provinces.
		Manichaeism was propounded by a cultural reformer called Mani who was born in 216 AD in Cteshipan in Babylonia which was then part of Persia.
		After forty years of travel the returned with his retinue to Persia and converted Peroz, King Shapur's brother to his teaching.
	www.ibiblio.org /radha/rpub014.htm (1380 words)

	Frye. Heritage of Persia
		Such was the case with the crowning of Varahran V (in 421) and of Peroz (459).
		It is, of course, possible to construct theories of history and of ethnic relationship on the basis of suggested etymologies of one or two words, but the lack not only of sources but of reliable traditions in the fragmentary information about Central Asia and eastern Iran in classical sources makes any theory highly speculative.
		It is well known that names which we find in the national epic appear at the end of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth century arnong the royal family and presumably also among the nobility although we hear little about the latter.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/med/fryeheri.html (10494 words)

	Christianity in Iran, Christians in Iran, History of Christianity in Iran, History of Christians in Iran
		Although the latter half of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century was a period of conflict in the Eastern provinces, the period was also a time of expansion for the Christian Church and of literary activity.
		The Nestorians of Persia were quarreling with the Orthodox Church of Persia, which was in communion with the Church of Armenia and asked for their help.
		The second epoch of Catholic missionary work in Persia begin in 1840 by the Lazarists and started with a French civil servant Eugene Bori, a fervent Catholic, he was sent to Persia in 1838 on a scientific mission by the French Academy and the Minister of Public Instruction.
	www.farsinet.com /iranbibl/christians_in_iran_history.html (8577 words)

	Hephthalites / White Huns
		In 484 the Hephthalite chief Akhshunwar led his army attacked the Sassanian King Peroz (459-484) and the king was defeated and killed in Khurasan.
		Chorsoes wanted to profit from the situation to take revenge over the defeat of his grandfather Peroz; he married a daughter of the nomadic chief and allied himself with them against the Hephthalites.
		As part of their religious observance, the Ephthalites did not cremate, but as is reported by all commentators including Procopius, always buried their dead, either by constructing a tomb or under the ground.
	www.geocities.com /pak_history/hephthalites.html (2784 words)

	Media, Persia, Parthia, & Iran
		A much larger and more vigorous Zoroastrian community is found in the refuge of India, where it is still known by the Middle Persian word for Persian, "Parsi." The Parsis, however, do not accept converts, and the intermarriage of community members outside of India has resulted in a decline in their numbers.
		While the official religion of Sassanid Persia was Zoroastrianism, there was also a Christian community, whose line of Patriarchs "of the East" continues to the present, and refugee pagans were accepted from the increasing intolerance of Christian Rome.
		Most noteworthy in that respect were the last Scholarch of Plato's Academy, Damascius, and his colleague Simplicius, who fled after the Emperor Justinian closed the Academy in 529.
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	Armenian Orthodoxy
		In 430 Persia took over Armenia and the Persian king, Yazdegert, issued an edict in 451 forcing all Armenians to abandon their faith and convert to Zoroastrianism.
		They held on to their faith through persecution and massacres, and in 484 a new Persian king, King Peroz, made the Treaty of Nuarsak which enforced toleration of Christianity and all other religions within his empire.
		The Armenians didn't get much of a break in the domination cycle once they finally threw off the shackles of the Persian Empire in 634, as they were again taken over in 654 by Arab rule.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/medny/oster (1103 words)

	Mani (prophet) Summary
		He is reported to have attracted or converted Peroz and Mehrshah, two sons of Ardashir I, founder of the Sassanid dynasty.
		In one age the revelation comes to India through the Buddha, in another to Persia through Zoroaster, in a third to the West through the historical Jesus, and in the last age it comes through Mani himself, the apostle of the true God.
		He later claimed to be the Paraclete promised in the New Testament, the Last Prophet or Seal of the Prophets, finalizing a succession of men guided by God, which included figures such as Seth, Noah, Abraham, Shem, Nikotheos, Enoch, Zoroaster, Hermes, Plato, Buddha, and Jesus.
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	Persian Empires
		His son, Papak, who succeeded him in this office, married the daughter of a local prince, from whom he seized power by a coup d'etat, and his accession in AD 208 was the starting point for a new era.
		His younger son, Ardashir, proclaimed himself king of Persia, gaining first the province of Fars and then neighbouring provinces.
		The last Sassanian, Yezdirgird III, was assassinated in 651 when most of Persia was lost to the Arabs.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /historia/ancient_1.htm (526 words)

	Amazon.com: "Sassanid Persia": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It was at this time, during Justin's reign and Justinian's early years, that across the eastern frontier in Sassanid Persia, the Mazdakites were at the height of their influence,...
		Julian's war and death in Sassanid Persia were among the most dramatic episodes of the four centuries of violent intermittent warfare between the Sassanid empire and the...
		Sassanid Persia was a religious as well as a political unity.
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	[No title]
		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.
		Bibliography: Boyle, J. A., ed., Persia: History and Heritage (1978); Cameron, George G., History of Early Iran (1976); Frye, R. N., The Heritage of Persia, 2d ed.
	www.jmu.edu /orgs/persianclub/newpage/persia_art.htm (1543 words)

	The Hephthalites of Central Asia - by Richard Heli
		Firuz (Peroz), former king of Persia, requests Ephthalite assistance.
		Turks and Chosroes (Khusrau) of Persia ally to capture and divide Ephthalite empire.
		New Evidence from the Buddhist relics in Merv," in La Persia e l'Asia centrale da Alessandro al X secolo (Atti dei convegni Lincei, 127; Rome: Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1996): 391-400.
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	Chai Khaana - The Ghilzai Pashtuns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		They were supreme in Afghanistan at the beginning of the 18th century, and for a time possessed the throne of Isfahan (Persia).
		The Shah of Persia thus declared the influence of Mir Wais, not Gurgin, at the Persian court.
		Mir Wais had extricated himself from a very nasty situation but, more importantly, he had observed the depths of decay at Isfahan, much as Babur had observed it at Herat, and correctly determined that the Safavid Empire was on the brink of collapse.
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	Sasanian kings
		home : index : ancient Persia : article by Jona Lendering ©
		last native dynasty to reign in Persia before the Arab conquest.
		A historical introduction can be read here; most coins below
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	Babel \| Peroz I - A Sassanian King
		Peroz had made peace with the Hephthalites, but he went to war with them after Kavadh gained his freedom.
		After gathering a large army, Peroz launched a campaign in the east.
		The Hephalites attacked and decimated the Persian force in 484 A.D. This victory by the Hephthalites enabled them to invade and pillage Persia for two years.
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