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Founding of the Sasanian Empire

Period
AD 224
Region
Middle East
Category
Politics

The Sasanian Empire, officially Eranshahr, was an Iranian empire that was founded and ruled by the House of Sasan from 224 to 651 AD. Lasting for over four centuries, the length of the Sasanian dynasty's reign over ancient Iran was second only to that of the Arsacid dynasty of Parthia which immediately preceded it.

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Earlier and later events nearby

  1. 612 BCFall of Nineveh
  2. 539 BCFall of Babylon
  3. 331 BCBattle of Gaugamela
  4. AD 224Founding of the Sasanian EmpireThis page
  5. AD 680Battle of Karbala
  6. AD 762–766Founding of Baghdad
  7. c. AD 820Al-Khwarizmi's Al-Jabr

Who ruled this land

States that held this place in the historical borders data (Cliopatria). Years are approximate, as fine as the data's snapshots (every few years to a century). Tap to open the map for that year.

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  1. 3400–2400 BCSumer
  2. 2300–2200 BCAkkadian Empire
  3. 2100 BCGutian dynasty of Sumer
  4. 2000–1900 BCSumer
  5. 1800–1300 BCBabylonia
  6. 1200–1100 BCAssyrian Empire
  7. 1000–850 BCBabylonia
  8. 800–700 BCNeo-Assyrian Empire
  9. 650 BCBabylonia
  10. 600–550 BCNeo-Babylonian Empire
  11. 500–350 BCAchaemenid Empire
  1. 300–150 BCSeleucid Empire
  2. 100 BC – AD 100Parthian Empire
  3. AD 125Roman Empire
  4. AD 150Parthian Empire
  5. AD 175–200Roman EmpireThis page
  6. AD 225Parthian Empire
  7. AD 250–625Sasanian Empire
  8. AD 650Rashidun Caliphate
  9. AD 675–750Umayyad Caliphate
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  1. AD 775–950Abbasid Caliphate
  2. AD 975–1040Buyid dynasty
  3. 1060–1200Seljuk Empire
  4. 1220–1240Abbasid Caliphate
  5. 1260–1280Mongol Empire
  6. 1300–1340Ilkhanate
  7. 1360–1400Jalayirid Sultanate
  8. 1420–1460Qara Qoyunlu
  9. 1480–1510Aq Qoyunlu
  10. 1520–1530Safavid dynasty
  11. 1540–1600Ottoman Empire
  12. 1610Safavid dynasty
  13. 1620Ottoman Empire
  14. 1630Safavid dynasty
  15. 1640–1916Ottoman Empire
  16. 1918–1920British Empire
  17. 1922–1930British Africa
  18. 1932–1942Kingdom of Iraq
  19. 1944British Africa
  20. 1946British Empire
  21. 1948–1956Kingdom of Iraq
  22. 1958Arab Federation
  23. 1960–2004Iraq
  24. 2006–2012United States
  25. 2014 –Iraq

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