Shapur III was king of Persia from 383 to 388. Son of Shapur II, he was elevated to the throne by the magnates against his uncle, Ardashir II, and killed by them after a reign of five years. He concluded a treaty with Theodosius the Great. 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 January 19 - Arcadius is elevated as Roman Emperor. ... Events Bahram IV becomes king of Persia. ... Shapur II the Great was king of Persia (309 - 379). ... Ardashir II was king of Persia from 379-383. ... Flavius Theodosius (Cauca (modern Coca, Segovia, Spain), January 11, 347 - Milan, January 17, 395), also called Theodosius I and Theodosius the Great, was a Roman emperor. ...

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Ardashir II was king of Persia from 379-383. ... 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 IV, king of Persia (389_399), son and successor of Shapur III, under whom he had been governor of Kirman; therefore he was called Kirmanshah (Armenia was divided between the Roman and the Persian empire. ... 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. ...