SASSANID, Sivler Drachm to identify (n°1)

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Sassanid Silver Drachm coin to identify (n°1) Sassanid Empire From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Sassanid ) Sassanid Empire ← 224–651 → The Sassanid Empire at its greatest extent, under king Khosrau II Capital Ardashir-Khwarrah (early) Ctesiphon Language(s) Middle Persian Religion Zoroastrianism (state religion). Also Judaism , Christianity ,Buddhism , and Hinduism . Government Monarchy Shahanshah - 224-241 Ardashir I - 632-651 Yazdegerd III History - Established 224 - Arab invasion during the Muslim conquests 651 Area - 550 7,400,000 km² (2,857,156 sq mi) The Sassanid Persian Empire ( Sassanian Dynasty or Sassanid Empire ) ( Persian : ساسانیا� IPA: [sɒsɒnijɒn] ) is the name of the last pre-Islamic Iranian empire. It was one of the two main powers in Western Asia for a period of more than 400 years. [1 ] The Sassanid dynasty was founded by Ardashir I after defeating the last Parthian (Arsacid) king, Artabanus IV Ardavan ) and ended when the last Sassanid Shahanshah ( King of Kings ), Yazdegerd III (632–651), lost a 14-year struggle to drive out the early Arab Caliphate , the first of the Islamic empires . The Sassanid's empire, which they called Eranshahr ("the Iranian Empire") [2 ], encompassed all of today's Iran , Iraq , Armenia , the southern Caucasus (including southern Dagestan), southwestern Central read more

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