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Encyclopedia > Bahram II

Bahram II, king of Persia (277-294), son of Bahram I. Sassanid Empire at its greatest extent The Sassanid dynasty (also Sassanian) was the name given to the kings of Persia during the era of the second Persian Empire, from 224 until 651, when the last Sassanid shah, Yazdegerd III, lost a 14-year struggle to drive out the Umayyad Caliphate... Events Births Deaths Bahram I, king of Persia Categories: 277 ... Events Tuoba Lu Guan succeeds Tuoba Fu as chieftain of the Chinese Tuoba tribe. ... Bahram I, was king of Persia (AD 274-277). ...


During his reign the emperor Carus attacked the Persians and conquered Ctesiphon (283), but died by the plague. Marcus Aurelius Carus (c. ... Taq-i-Kasra, Ctesiphon, today. ... Events December 17 - Pope Gaius succeeds Pope Eutychian December - Numerian was proclaimed Roman emperor by his soldiers. ... Plague redirects here. ...


Of Bahram II’s reign some theological inscriptions exist (F Stolze and JC Andreas, Persepolis (Berlin, 1882), and EW West, "Pahiavi Literature" in Grundriss d. iranischen Philologie, ii. pp. 75-129).

Preceded by:
Bahram I
Sassanid Ruler Succeeded by:
Bahram III

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Bahram I, was king of Persia (AD 274-277). ... Sassanid Empire at its greatest extent The Sassanid dynasty (also Sassanian) was the name given to the kings of Persia during the era of the second Persian Empire, from 224 until 651, when the last Sassanid shah, Yazdegerd III, lost a 14-year struggle to drive out the Umayyad Caliphate... Bahram III, king of Persia, son of Bahram II, under whose rule he had been governing Sejistan (therefore called Saganshah, Agathias iv. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) in many ways represents the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ...


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Bahram II died in 293, and he was succeeded by Narseh, who ruled to 303.
Bahram made a hundred-year peace with Constantinople in which he agreed to grant freedom of worship for Christians in the Sassanid Empire in exchange for Constantinople granting freedom of worship for Zoroastrians under its rule.
History of Iran: A Review of Sassanid Images and Inscriptions (1657 words)
From that date the image of Bahram II was engraved in all official Sassanid works and in all these images he is portrayed with his wife and courtiers but without a successor.
At the lower part Bahram II is portrayed stretching his hand to receive the royal ring from the same person who is engraved in the upper part.
Bahram II is shown in full length lifting his right hand as a sign of prayer and holding a sword in his left.
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