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Encyclopedia > Bahram III

Bahram III, king of Persia, son of Bahram II, under whose rule he had been governing Sistan (therefore called Saganshah, Agathias iv. 24, Tabari). The Sassanid Empire in the time of Shapur I; the conquest of Cappadocia was temporary Official language Pahlavi (Middle Persian) Dominant Religion Zoroastrianism Capital Ctesiphon Sovereigns Shahanshah of the Iran (Eranshahr) First Ruler Ardashir I Last Ruler Yazdegerd III Establishment 224 AD Dissolution 651 AD Part of the History of... Bahram II, king of Persia (277_294), son of Bahram I. During his reign the emperor Carus attacked the Persians and conquered Ctesiphon (283), but died by the plague. ... Categories: Iran geography stubs | Provinces of Iran ... Agathias (c. ...


He reigned only four months (in 294), and was succeeded by the pretender Narseh. Events Tuoba Lu Guan succeeds Tuoba Fu as chieftain of the Chinese Tuoba tribe. ... Narseh (whose name is also sometimes written as Narses or Narseus) was a Sassanian King of Persia (292 - 303), and son of Shapur I. He rose as pretender to the throne against his grand-nephew Bahram III in AD 292, and soon became sole king. ...

Preceded by:
Bahram II
Sassanid Ruler
294
Succeeded by:
Narseh

Bahram II, king of Persia (277_294), son of Bahram I. During his reign the emperor Carus attacked the Persians and conquered Ctesiphon (283), but died by the plague. ... The Sassanid Empire in the time of Shapur I; the conquest of Cappadocia was temporary Official language Pahlavi (Middle Persian) Dominant Religion Zoroastrianism Capital Ctesiphon Sovereigns Shahanshah of the Iran (Eranshahr) First Ruler Ardashir I Last Ruler Yazdegerd III Establishment 224 AD Dissolution 651 AD Part of the History of... Events Tuoba Lu Guan succeeds Tuoba Fu as chieftain of the Chinese Tuoba tribe. ... Narseh (whose name is also sometimes written as Narses or Narseus) was a Sassanian King of Persia (292 - 303), and son of Shapur I. He rose as pretender to the throne against his grand-nephew Bahram III in AD 292, and soon became sole king. ...

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  • This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, a publication in the public domain.

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Bahram II of Persia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (102 words)
Bahram II, king of Persia (277-294), son of Bahram I.
During his reign the emperor Carus attacked the Persians and conquered Ctesiphon (283), but died by the plague.
Of Bahram II’s reign some theological inscriptions exist (F Stolze and JC Andreas, Persepolis (Berlin, 1882), and EW West, "Pahlavi Literature" in Grundriss d.
b. Ardashir I to Shapur II. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History (717 words)
Bahram was succeeded by his son, Bahram II (274–293).
Bahram III, son of Bahram II, reigned for a few months and was deposed by his uncle, Narseh.
On the death of Hormizd his natural heir, Hormizd III, was set aside by the nobility, who elected his posthumous son, the child Shapur II.
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