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

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