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Persia (3696 words) |
 | Abbas III (1732-1736) Shah of Persia 1732-36, the son of Tahmasp II. |
| Ardashir's father made himself ruler of a district in Persia as vassal of the Arsacid king of Parthia. |
| In the course of his 6-year reign Darius III led the Persian army against the forces of Alexander the Great of Macedonia but was defeated at the battles of Issus in 333 bc and Gaugamela in 331. |
| Tanabe - Identification of the King of Kings in Taq-i Bustan - Transoxiana Eran ud Aneran (5391 words) |
| However, this monument is not meant exclusively for the glorification of Ardashir III but more generally for the re-establishment of the Sasanian kingship which was threatened by the destruction of Takht-i Taqdîs by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius in 624. |
| Although the necklace and earring of Yazdgard III depicted on his first type of coins are almost identical with those of Ardashir III, he should be duly excluded because his coin type concerned is nothing but the copy of that of Ardashir III's. |
| Therefore the ground design of this monument was decided during the reign of Ardashir III and eventually his royal effigy was adopted simply as the representative one by the designers in order to visualize the Sasanian kingship which had been symbolized by the so-called Takht-i Taqdîs destroyed by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius in 623/624. |
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