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Sassanian Empire
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Sassanian Empire

Persian empire founded AD 224 by Ardashir, a chieftain in the area of what is now Fars, in Iran, who had taken over Parthia; it was named after his grandfather, Sasan. The capital was Ctesiphon, near modern Baghdad, Iraq. After a rapid period of expansion, when it contested supremacy with Rome, it was destroyed in 637 by Muslim Arabs at the Battle of Qadisiya.
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The Sassanid empire encompassed not only modern Iran but stretched from Arabia to Central Asia.
Iran--a history by New Internationalist
Zoroastrianism was the official religion of the pre-Islamic Sassanid Empire and thus played a central role in the country's history.
Iran by International Religious Freedom Report
Zoroastrianism was the official religion of the pre-Islamic Sassanid Empire and thus played a central role in the country's history.
Iran by International Religious Freedom Report
 
 
 
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