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 | | Sassanid rule and the system of social stratification were reinforced by Zoroastrianism, which became the dominant religion, but not the official state religion, because other religions were still allowed (this is a controversially discussed topic, see for example Wiesehöfer, Ancient Persia, or the Cambridge History of Iran, vol 3). |
 | | The head of the priestly class, the Mobadan (Magi), along with the military commander, the ''Iran (Eran) Spahbod'', and the head of the bureaucracy (Chancellor), were among the great men of the state. |
 | | Initially Sassanids, like Parthians, were in constant hostility with Roman_Empire, and following the division of the Roman empire in year 395, Eastern_Roman_Empire, with its capital at Constantinople, replaced Roman Empire as Persia's principal Western enemy, and hostilities between the two empires became even more frequent. |
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