| They fought the Roman legions and the Sassanid Persians, and in most cases lost. |
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| It was the next native Persian dynasty after the collapse of the Sassanid Persian empire, caused by the Arab conquest. |
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| He succeeded in marching to the Sassanid capital of Ctesiphon, but lacked adequate supplies for an assault. |
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| Zoroastrianism was the state religion of the Sassanid dynasty which lasted until 651, when Persia was conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate. |
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| Within several decades, Heraclius completed a holy war against the Persians by taking their capital and having a Sassanid monarch assassinated. |
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| However, Rome was militarily confronted with the rising Sassanid Empire and growing incursions from the tribes of Germania. |
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| Most Roman troops had been transferred from the Balkan Peninsula to fight against the Sassanid Empire in Armenia. |
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| Following this, Heraclius led an invasion into Sassanid Mesopotamia once again. |
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| Persian Sassanid coins emerged as a means of currency, just as valuable as silk yarn and textiles. |
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| During the 7th century the Sassanid Persian empire conquered the whole of the Persian Gulf, including southern and northern shores. |
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| The Persian Gulf, along with the Silk Road, were important trade routes in the Sassanid empire. |
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| Abbasid caliphs followed the Sassanid and Sasanian influences are obvious in political, social and many affairs of life of Abbasids. |
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| Until late in the fourth century the united Empire retained sufficient power to launch attacks against its enemies in Germania and in the Sassanid Empire. |
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| The third, fourth and the fifth salt mummies date back to the Achaemenid era while the sixth one belongs to either the Parthian or the Sassanid era. |
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| It was also part of the Median, Achaemenid, Hellenistic, Parthian, Sassanid, Roman, Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, Ayyubid, Mongol, Safavid, Afsharid, and Ottoman empires. |
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| And it was an Arab general, Khaled ibn ul-Walid, who defeated the Sassanid forces with his army in the 630s AD from its empire's southern borders in the battle of Qadissiyah. |
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| In the 3rd century, Ardashir I, the first ruler of the Sassanid dynasty, marched on Oman and Bahrain, where he defeated Sanatruq the ruler of Bahrain. |
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| The Huns used a type of spatha in the Iranic or Sassanid style, with a long, straight approximately 83cm blade, usually with a diamond shaped iron guard plate. |
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| Following the accession of Heraclius, the Sassanid advance pushed deep into the Levant, occupying Damascus and Jerusalem and removing the True Cross to Ctesiphon. |
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| After this, the Sassanid army was forced to withdraw to Anatolia. |
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| In order to diminish the religious significance of the place, the British systematically referred to Salman Pak by its classical Sassanid name, Ctesiphon. |
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