The last pre-Islamic Iranian empire, the Sasanian state revived Zoroastrian Persian kingship and rivaled Rome and Byzantium for four centuries before falling to the Arab-Muslim conquests.
Conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate through a series of Arab Muslim invasions culminating in 651 CE, when the last Sasanian emperor Yazdegerd III was murdered near Merv, ending the dynasty.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Sasanian Empire — the shape you scrub through changes in 224 · 450 · 550.
Scholarly coverage of the transition from Parthian to Sasanian rule and the early empire's formation.
Covers the Sasanian Empire's long rivalry with Rome/Byzantium and its legacy for later Islamic Iran.
Persia’s national epic of kings, ending with the Sasanians’ fall.