Ruler · 315 – 383

Ardashir II

Lived 315 – 383. Emperor of the Sasanian Empire (Sasanian Empire), 379 – 383; also in the line of Adiabene and Persian Empire.

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Lived: 315 – 383; 68 years
In office: 32 years; one reign
Lines: 3; states
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

Emperor of the Sasanian Empire

Sasanian Empire · the 11th of 32 dated reigns · 224 – 651

7 before

Ardashir II379 – 383

18 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 379 – 383 · 4 years · came to it aged 64

Came to it: the sibling of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 383, the year they died

Also in the line of Adiabene (5th of 5) and Persian Empire (21st of 51, read from the line of Sasanian Empire).

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