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NARSEUS NARSEH NARSES

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 241 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NARSEUS NARSEH

NARSES  , king of
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Persia, son of Shapur I . He rose as pretender to the
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throne against his
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grand-
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nephew Bahram III. in A.D . 292, and soon became
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sole king . 1-le attacked the Romans, but after defeating the emperor Galerius near Callinicum on the Euphrates in 296 was completely defeated in 297, and forced to conclude a peace, by which western Mesopotamia and five provinces on the
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left
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bank of the upper Tigris were ceded to the Romans and their
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sovereignty over the
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kingdom of Armenia was acknowledged . This peace, concluded in 297, lasted for
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forty years . Narses died in 303 and was succeeded by his son Hormizd II . (Ed .

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