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Beate Dignas & Engelbert Winter - Kaveh Farrokh

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272 Appendix 2<br />

611 Syrian Antioch is conquered<br />

613 Tarsus and Damascus are conquered<br />

614 Jerusalem falls and the Holy Cross is taken to Ktēsiphōn<br />

615 The Sasanians capture Chalcedon; Roman attempts at reconciliation<br />

with the Sasanians fail<br />

619 The Sasanians conquer Egypt<br />

622 Heraclius embarks on a Roman counter offensive<br />

623 The Romans free Asia Minor from Sasanian control<br />

626 The Sasanians and Avars attack Constantinople but fail<br />

627 The Sasanians are defeated at Niniveh<br />

628 Kavādh II ˇ Sērōē and Heraclius conclude peace<br />

628/629 The Sasanians return their conquests in Armenia,<br />

Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine and Egypt to the Romans<br />

630 The Holy Cross is restored to Jerusalem<br />

636 The Arabs defeat the Romans at the Yarmūk river; in the<br />

following period the important Roman Eastern provinces are<br />

lost<br />

636 The Arabs defeat the Sasanians at Qādīsīya<br />

642 The Arabs defeat the Sasanians at Nihāvand<br />

651 Yazdgard III, the last Sasanian king, is assassinated

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