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SASSANID, or SASSANIAN DYNASTY (Or SA...

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 227 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SASSANID, or
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SASSANIAN DYNASTY (Or SASANIAN)
  , the ruling dynasty of the neo-Persian
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empire founded by
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Ardashir I. in A.D . 226 and destroyed by the
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Arabs in 637 . The dynasty is named after Sasan, an ancestor of Ardashir I . For a list of the kings and the
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history of the empire see
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PERSIA: Ancient History, section viii.; for its fall see also
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CALIPHATE, section A, § 1 .

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