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Chosroes II

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Chosroes II (or Khosrow II or Khosrau II) (died 628)

Sassanid king of Persia AD 590–628, grandson of Khosrau I. He began a fierce campaign against the Byzantine empire in 594, in which his armies overran Syria and Asia Minor (608), captured Damascus and Jerusalem (614), and penetrated as far as Egypt by 619. But the emperor Heraclius rallied Byzantine forces, retook Jerusalem, and defeated Chosroes at Nineveh in 627. After this defeat, he was deposed and killed by his eldest son, Kavadh II.

Chosroes II only established firm rule after seeking the help of the Byzantine emperor Maurice to defeat the usurper Bahram Chobin in 591. Maurice's murder provoked Chosroes's sustained assault on the Byzantine empire.



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