Despite the vast reach of the Ottoman Empire, from North Africa to Eastern Europe, one powerful neighbor remained unconquered: Persia. In this video, we explore the reasons why the Ottomans never ...

These conquests were instead preceded by a gradual weakening of the two dominant empires of the time, the Byzantine and Sassanid Persian empires, worn down by incessant wars that had damaged their ...

How could the Persian Empire, standing for more than 400 years ... the last king of the great Sassanid dynasty. “Submit,” Khalid ibn al-Walid declared, “or you will be conquered by men ...

part of the Sassanid Empire), was rather unfortunate, with defeats at Tanurin and Mindouos in 528. However, not only was he not held responsible, but he was also promoted to Magister Militum per ...

In the 600s, Balochistan was loosely under the Sassanid Persian Empire. As the Sassanids faced the Arab onslaught, control of the region, then known as Makran (after its coastal area), passed to ...

Historically, these nations practiced Zoroastrianism. However, following the fall of the Sassanid Persian Empire to Muslim conquerors, Islam began to spread in the area. Eventually, Iran would ...

which in turn held and controlled the Sassanid empire’s purse strings. The betrayal of the Jewish soldiers by the Persian Sassanid rulers to the Byzantines is one of the great acts of betrayal ...

Another conjecture regarding the Byzantine artifacts, he said, is that a Byzantine building on the Temple Mount had already been destroyed by the Sassanid Persian Empire, whose brief control of ...

The Sassanid empire ruled Persia for nearly nine centuries ... there has been considerable congruity between the Persian mainland and the territories of Pakistan. The Persian language spread ...