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	Yazdegerd - LoveToKnow 1911
		(1) Yazdegerd son of Shapur III., 399-420, called "the sinner" by the Persians, was a highly intelligent ruler, who tried to emancipate himself from the dominion of the magnates and the Magian priests.
		(2) Yazdegerd Ii., was the son of Bahram V. Gor, 438-457.
		Yazdegerd fled from one district to another, till at last he was murdered at Mery in 651 '(see' CALIPHATE, sect.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Yazdegerd (282 words)

	Yazdegerd III of Persia
		Yazdegerd III, ("made by God," Izdegerdes), king of Persia, a grandson of Khosrau II, who had been murdered by his son Kavadh II in 628, was raised to the throne in 632 after a series of internal conflicts.
		He was a mere child and never really ruled; in his first year the Arabic invasion[?] began, and in 637 the battle of Kadisiya[?] decided the fate of the empire.
		Yazdegerd fled from one district to another, till at last he was murdered at Merv in 651.
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	Top Literature - Yazdegerd II
		Yazdegerd II, ("made by God," Izdegerdes), King of Persia, was the son of Bahram V of Persia (421–438) and reigned from 438 to 457.
		In the beginning of his reign, Yazdegerd II quickly attacked the Eastern Roman Empire with a mixed army of various nations, including his Indian allies, to eliminate the threat of a Roman buildup.
		Yazdegerd II, in spite of having the upper hand, did not make further demands on the Romans due to incursions by Kidarites in Parthia and Khwarezmia.
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	Yazdegerd III of Persia - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yazdegerd III, (also "Yazdgird III") ("made by God," Izdegerdes), king of Persia, a grandson of Khosrau II, who had been murdered by his son Kavadh II in 628, was raised to the throne in 632 after a series of internal conflicts.
		He was a mere child and never really ruled; in his first year the Arab invasion of Persia began, and in 637 the battle of Kadisiya decided the fate of the empire.
		The Parsees, who use the old Persian calendar, continue to count the years from his accession (era of Yazdegerd, beginning June 16, AD His daughter Shahr Banu would be married to the grandson of Muhammad, Husayn ibn Ali, and gave birth to the fourth Shia Imam, Ali Zayn al Abidin.
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	Persia - Search View - 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.
		The last of the Sassanid kings was Yazdegerd III, during whose reign (632-651) Arab Muslims invaded and eventually conquered Persia.
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	The Sassanids, to 500 CE
		The Sassanids to 500 CE Bahram II and Narseh
		Yazdegerd sponsored a council meeting of Christian bishops and other Christian ecclesiastics to mend their internal quarrels, and the council created rules and an organizational structure to unite Christians within the empire.
		After Yazdegerd's death in 420, nobles exercised their prerogative of supporting one faction or another within the royal family, and they tried to prevent any of Yazdegerd's sons from succeeding him.
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		Khosrau II 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 (he ruled briefly in 628), whom Khosrau II had imprisoned, was set free by some of the leading men and proclaimed King (night of 23-4 February, 628).
		Khosrau II of PersiaKhosrau II of Persia Khosrau II, "the Victorious" (Parvez), king of Persia, son of Hormizd IV, grandson of Khosrau I, 590 - 628.
		Khosrau I of Persia Khosrau II of Persia Hormizd I of Persia Hormizd II of Persia Hormizd IV of Persia...
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Yazdegerd III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
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		The Islamic conquest of Iran led to the collapse of the Sassanid Empire, the eventual decline of Zoroastrian religion in Iran, and the birth of Islamic civilization.
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	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.
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	Religions of Iran: Aba & The Church in Persia
		Persia later became tolerant of Christianity; liberty was increased there while it was vanishing in Europe.
		The barbaric churches, from the Gulf of Persia to the Caspian Sea, were almost infinite; and their recent faith was conspicuous in the number and sanctity of their monks and martyrs.
		In the further history of the expansion of the Assyrian Church during the Moslem rule in Persia, authorities will be cited as evidence that the Sabbath of the fourth commandment was observed by both Monophysitism and the Church of the East in their separate areas in near and far Asia.
	www.iranchamber.com /religions/articles/aba_church_persia.php (5659 words)

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		Biography of Yazdegerd I of Persia - from 399 to 420
		Biography of Yazdegerd II of Persia - from 438 to 457
		Biography of Yazdegerd III of Persia - from 632 to 651
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hormizd II of Persia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hormizd II, King of Persia, son of Narseh of Persia (293–302), reigned for seven years and five months, from 302 to 309.
		Narseh (whose name is also sometimes written as Narses or Narseus) was a Sassanian 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.
		In 363, Hormizd served in the army of Emperor Julian the Apostate (361–363) against Persia; his son, with the same name, afterwards served in the Roman government as a proconsul (Ammianus Marcellinus 26.
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	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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	Christianity in Iran, Christians in Iran, History of Christianity in Iran, History of Christians in Iran
		Though the church was not fully independent from Rome as yet, Yazdegerd approved of the organization of the Persian church on this basis and issued an edict giving recognition to the Catholicos as the head of the Persian church.
		When Yazdegerd died in 420, and was succeeded by his son Bahram V, the persecution continued, and large numbers of Christians fled across the frontier into Roman territory.
		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)

	Islamic conquest of Persia information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Islamic conquest of Persia (637-651 CE) led to the end of the Sassanid Empire and the eventual decline of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia (modern day Iran).
		The last, Yazdegerd III, was a grandson of Khusrau II and was said to be a mere child.
		After a decisive Muslim victory against the Byzantines, in Syria at the Battle of Yarmuk in 636, the second caliph, Umar, was able to transfer forces to the east and resume the offensive against the Sassanians.
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	Definition of category:kings of persia
		15:...iaramnes of Persia]], son of Teispes and co-ruler of Cyrus I. (1415 bytes)
		Persia is used to describe the nation of Iran, its people, or its ancient empire.
		In 404 Darius II died after a reign of nineteen years, and was followed by [[Artaxerxes...
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	Yazdegerd III of Persia
		Khosrau II, who had been murdered by his son II of Persia">Kavadh II in 628, was raised to the throne in 632 after a series of internal conflicts.">
		Yazdegerd III, ("made by God," Izdegerdes), king of Persia, a grandson of II of Persia">Khosrau II, who had been murdered by his son II of Persia">Kavadh II in 628, was raised to the throne in 632 after a series of internal conflicts.
		The Parsees, who use the old Persian calendar[?], continue to count the years from his accession (era of Yazdegerd, beginning June 16, AD 632).
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		Yazdgerd III (Persian: ÛØ²Ø¯Ú¯Ø±Ø¯ Ø³ÙÙ, "made by God") was the last king of the Sassanid dynasty and a grandson of Khosrau II (590–628), who had been murdered by his son Kavadh II of Persia in 628.
		In his first year the Arab invasion of Persia began, and in 636 the Battle of al-QÄdisiyyah decided the fate of the Persian empire.
		The Zoroastrian religious calendar, which is still in use today, uses the regnal year of Yazdegerd III as its base year.
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	Question About Hyborian Races - The REH Forum
		Yezdigerd appears to be based on Yazdegerd (Persian: یزدگرد سوم, "made by God"), which was the name of three Persian rulers of the Sassanian period.
		Yazdegerd II, King of Persia, was the son of Bahram V of Persia (421—438) and reigned from 438 to 457.
		Yazdgerd III, last king of Sassanid dynasty, a grandson of Khosrau II (590—628), who had been murdered by his son Kavadh II of Persia in 628, and was raised to the throne in 632 after a series of internal conflicts.
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	LBANIA (Iranian Aran, Arm
		In A.D. 359 ˆa@pu@r II was joined by the king of Albania on his march on Amida; the Albanians were deployed to the north of the city (Ammianus Marcellinus Res gestae 18.2.3, 18.6.12).
		Under Yazdegerd II (438-57) a royal edict requiring Christians of the empire to adopt Mazdaism was addressed, among others, to the Armenians, Iberians, and Albanians (Òazar P¿arpec¿i, History of Armenia, ed.
		83) speaks of “magnificent walls built at great expense by the kings of Persia.” Yazdegerd II undertook the construction of a mighty wall of unbaked brick mixed with straw which extended from the sea to the slopes of Darband (cf.
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		of Iran; Shiraz, Iran; Iranians; Khosrau I of Persia; Shapur I of Persia; Khosrau II of Persia; Yazdegerd III of Persia...
		Yazdegerd III of Persia / Iran / En 230.
		Democratic-Republican, 1823-1824 Yau, John, poet Yau, Shing-Tung, Chinese mathematician Yazdegerd I of Persia, from 399 to 420.
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	Chronology of Byzantium and Persia
		Anarchy in Persia after death of Kavadh II in 628.
		Battle of al-Qadisayya (636/7) à Sasanians lost Persia to Arabs because Ctesiphon was at the mercy of the victors.
		Persia able to extract greater mil forces from a resource base equal to that of Rome.Gains due to R disunity and problems with Armenia and also with Avars.
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	Elam: Wars with Rome, The Arab-Eurasian invasion - Ancient Man and His First Civilizations
		"Khosrow I" was now king of Persia, and he concluded an alliance with a Turkish leader called Sinjibu, after which a common frontier between the Turkish and Sassanian empires was established (area of Afghanistan).
		The agreement was not a good one however, as sometimes the Turks acted as allies of Rome against Persia.
		The prominence and influence of the Khazar state, was reflected in its close relations with the Byzantine Emperors: Justinian II (704) and Constantine V (732) each had a Khazar wife.
	www.realhistoryww.com /world_history/ancient/Elam_Iran_3a.htm (666 words)

	Sassanid dynasty
		The governmental structure of the Sassanian Persia was centralized, where local rulers were removed early in the dynasty's history.
		Great imperial ambitions of the rulers, influenced by the memory of the Achaemenid Persian empire, brought Persia into numerous conflicts with the Roman (later Byzantine) Empire.
		Stability was not established until Yazdegerd 3 took power.
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	Persia - MSN Encarta
		Great books about your topic, Persia, selected by Encarta editors
		For later history, as well as other information on the modern country, see Iran.
		For the post-Sassanid history of the region, see Iran: History.
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	History of antisemitism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1492, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile issued General Edict on the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain (see also Spanish Inquisition) and many Sephardi Jews fled to the Ottoman Empire, some to the Land of Israel.
		In 1744, Frederick II of Prussia limited Breslau to only ten so-called "protected" Jewish families and encouraged similar practice in other Prussian cities.
		In 1782, Joseph II abolished most of persecution practices in his Toleranzpatent, on the condition that Yiddish and Hebrew are eliminated from public records and judicial autonomy is annulled.
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		YAZDEGERD : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
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		Peroz I was the son of Yazdegerd II of Persia (438–457).
		The army got lost in the eastern desert and was destroyed in 484.
		He raised Balash of Persia (484–488), one of Peroz I's brothers, to the throne.
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