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Qadisiya, Battle of

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Qadisiya, Battle of

Battle fought in southern Iraq in 637. A Muslim Arab force defeated a larger Zoroastrian Persian army and ended the Sassanian Empire. The defeat is still resented in Iran, where Muslim Arab nationalism threatens to break up the Iranian state.


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