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The vizier of the Indian king invented chess as a cheerful, playful challenge to King Khosrow. It seems that the Indian ruler who sent the game of chess to Khosrow was the Maukhari King Śarvavarman of Kannauj, between the beginning of Śarvavarman's reign in 560/565 and the end of Khosrow's reign in 579. [100]
The siege of Petra took place in 541 when the Sasanian Empire, under King of Kings Khosrow I, besieged the town of Petra in Lazica, held by the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. The Sasanians successfully captured the fortress. [1] [2]
Khosrow II: King of Kings of Iran(ians) and non-Iran(ians) Khūsrōkhwarrah abzōt ("Khosrow, he has increased the royal splendor") 590 – 590 Son Rebelled against his father and proclaimed himself as king of Persia, however he was then overthrown by Bahram Chobin; House of Mihran: Bahram VI Chobin: King of Kings of Iran(ians) and non-Iran ...
Map of the Byzantine–Sasanian frontier in 565. In 541 AD, the small but strategic region of Lazica became the new battlefield of the Roman–Persian Wars.. In 541 AD, the Sasanian King of Kings Khosrow I led a campaign to dominate the strategic country of Lazica on the eastern shore of the Black Sea with the aid of the Lazic king Gubazes II, who had been alienated by the Byzantines under ...
Belisarius wanted to return home too as to avoid being surprised by the arrival of Persian forces under Khosrow. [1] Procopius later claimed this because of Belisarius wanting to confront his wife Antonina, whose lover his troops had imprisoned, as soon as possible about her affair. [1]
In 541, General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire led a counter-offensive in Persian territory into Mesopotamia, as part of a counter-offensive against the Persian King Khosrow I's prior invasion of the Roman East in 540. [1]
In 590, two Parthian brothers, Vistahm and Vinduyih, overthrew King Hormizd IV and made the latter's son, Prince Khosrow II, the new king. The former Persian commander-in-chief, Bahram Chobin, who had rebelled against Hormizd IV, claimed the throne for himself and defeated Khosrow. Khosrow and the two Parthians fled to the Byzantine court.
Kavad I (Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭥𐭠𐭲 Kawād; 473 – 13 September 531) was the Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 488 to 531, with a two or three-year interruption. A son of Peroz I (r.