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  Yazdegerd III of Persia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yazdegerd III ("made by God," Izdegerdes), last King of Persia, a grandson of Khosrau II of Persia (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.
Yazdegerd III fled from one district to another, until at last he was murdered at Merv in 651.
Yazdegerd III's daughter Shahr Banu married Husayn ibn Ali, Muhammad's grandson, and gave birth to the fourth Shia Imam, Ali Zayn al Abidin.
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 PERSIA - LoveToKnow Article on PERSIA
On the north-west Persia is united by the highlands of Armenia to the mountains of Asia Minor; on the north-west the Paropamisus and Hindu Kush connect it with the Himalayas.
In south-eastern Persia the Kuhi-Basman, a dormant volcano, 11,000 to 12,000 ft. in height, in the Basman district, and the Kuh-i-Taftan, i.e.
Four rivers belonging essentially to Persia, in reference to the Caspian watershed, are the Seafid Rud or Kizil Uzain on the southwest, the Herhaz on the south and the Gurgan and Atrek at the south-eastern corner of that inland sea.
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 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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 CalendarHome.com - Zoroastrian calendar - Calendar Encyclopedia
Yazdegerd III had another reform prepared, but it was not implemented when the Arabs overthrew the dynasty.
Following Alexander's conquest of Persia in 330 BCE, the Seleucids (312-248 BCE) instituted the Hellenic practice of dating by era, as opposed to dating by the reign of individual kings, and began the era of Alexander (now referred to as the Seleucid era).
This practice was not considered acceptable to the Zoroastrian priests, who consequently founded a new era, the era of Zoroaster - which incidentally led to the first serious attempt to establish a historical date for the prophet.
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 PERSIAN EMPIRE FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Persia's earliest known kingdom was the proto-Elamite Empire, followed by the Medes; but it is the Achaemenid Empire that emerged under Cyrus the Great that is usually the earliest to be called "Persian." Successive states in Iran before 1935 are collectively called the ''Persian Empire'' by Western historians.
Persia's weakness was exposed to the Greeks in 401 BC, when the Satrap of Sardis hired ten thousand Greek mercenaries to help secure his claim to the imperial throne (see Xenophon).
Persia was drawn into the periphery of WWI because of its strategic position between Afghanistan and the warring Ottoman, Russian, and British Empires.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Yazdegerd III of Persia
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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 YAZDEGERD - LoveToKnow Article on YAZDEGERD
(I) YAZDEGERD I., son of Shapur III., 399420, 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, 438457.
Yazdegerd fled from one district to another, till at last he was murdered at Merv in 651 (see CALIPHATE, sect.
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 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 last of the Sassanid kings was Yazdegerd III, during whose reign (632-651) Arab Muslims invaded and eventually conquered Persia.
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 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Its epoch is 16 June 632, the date of the coronation of Yazdegerd III of Persia, the last monarch of the Sassanid dynasty.
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 persia
Persia is a historical nation which is now known as Iran.
It was reconquered and thoroughly organized by Darius I, the son of Hystaspes, whose dominions extended from India to the Danube.
Persia was renamed Iran on March 21, 1935, presumably after Aryan.
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 Sassanid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Sassanid (also Sassanian or Sasanian Dynasty) was the name given to the kings of Persia during the era of the second Persian Empire, from 224 until 651, when the last Sassanid shah, III of Persia">Yazdegerd III, lost a 14-year struggle to drive out the Islamic Saracens.
Shah II of Persia"> Khosrau II (Kasrâ in persian) fleetingly achieved this goal in a series of wars against the Byzantine Empire between 602 and 616, conquering Egypt, Syria and Palestine.
In 628, Khosrau was deposed with Heraclius' army at the gates of the capital of Ctesiphon.
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 Persia
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.
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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 Yazdegerd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There were three kings of Persia called Yazdegerd, all from the Sassanid dynasty
Yazdegerd I of Persia (r 399 - 420)
Yazdegerd II of Persia (r 438 - 457)
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 List of people by name: Y
Yazdegerd I of Persia, from 399 to 420.
Yazdegerd II of Persia, from 438 to 457.
Yazdegerd III of Persia, from 632 to 651.
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 Hormizd I of Persia Definition / Hormizd I of Persia Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Hormizd I, king of PersiaThe Sassanid dynasty (also Sassanian) was the name given to the kings of Persia during the era of the second Persian Empire, from 224 until 651, when the last Sassanid shah, Yazdegerd III, lost a 14-year struggle to drive out the Umayyad Caliphate, the first of the Islamic empires....
Tetricus I and Tetricus II are deposed as Gallic Emperors by Aurelian.
The name was given to the eastern province of Persia during the Sassanid empire....
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 Iran
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.
He was defeated and killed by Arsaces I. Nevertheless, Khurasan itself was retained by the Seleucids for another two generations before the general sweep of eastern Iran by the Parthians.
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 Shar Banu, Yazdegerd III's daughter - China History Forum, online chinese history forum
The shrine of "Bibi Shahrbanu", Rey, Iran.Shahr banu (or Shahr banoo), was the eldest daughter of Yazdegerd III, the last Emperor of Sassanid Persia.
After the defeat of her father Yazdegerd III, she was taken captive by the invading Arab armies and sent to Medina where she was married to Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad, and Shia's third saint.
Omar the caliph soon arrived and demanded the daughter of the King of Persia to be shown to him.
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 Wikinfo | History of Persia
Ariaramnes of Persia, son of Teispes and co-ruler of Cyrus I. Cambyses I of Anshan, son of Cyrus I. Arsames of Persia, son of Ariaramnes and co-ruler of Cambyses I
Darius III Codomannus, great-grandson of Darius II, ruled 336 -330 BC
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 Biography Base Letter Y
Yazdegerd I of Persia - from 399 to 420
Yazdegerd II of Persia - from 438 to 457
Yazdegerd III of Persia - from 632 to 651
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 Y - Information about Everything and Everybody
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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 Rulers and Heads of State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
PERSIA Hormizd I 'The Brave' of (King of Persia)
PERSIA Hormizd IV of (King of the Sasanian Emp.)
PERSIA Khosrow II 'The Victorious' of (King of Persia)
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  stone2
According to the Zend Avesta, the sacred book of Zoroastrianism, he was born in Azerbaijan, in northern Persia.
The Achaemenid rulers after Cyrus were Cambyses II, the impostor Smerdis, Darius I, Xerxes I, Artaxerxes I, Xerxes II, Sogdianus, Darius II, Artaxerxes II (opposed by Cyrus the Younger), Artaxerxes III, Arses, and Darius III.
was the name given to the kings of Persia during the era of the second Persian Empire, from 224 until 651, when the last Sassanid shah, Yazdegerd III, lost a 14-year struggle to drive out the Islamic Saracens.
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 Illuminati Conspiracy Part One: Notes
is indispensable for anyone investigating the Illuminati: in Part III and Part IV of his magnum opus hundreds of pages are devoted to the Order.
Barruel consulted the original documents published by the Bavarian Elector, just as Robison had, however Barruel's quotations are complete, meticulously sourced (book, page and number cited throughout), numerous, and faithfully translated.
Followers of the Persian prophet Zoroaster [aka Zarathustra, of 2001 fame], their ancestors were driven out of Persia by invading Muslims 1400 years ago.
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Yazdegerd I ("made by God" Izdigerdes), king of Persia, son of Shapur III, 399-420, called "the sinner" by the Persians.
He was a highly intelligent ruler, who tried to emancipate himself from the dominion of the magnates and the Magian priests.
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