Ruler · 570 – 628

Khosrow II

Lived 570 – 628; monarch, military leader. Emperor of the Sasanian Empire (Sasanian Empire), 590 – …; also in the line of Persian Empire.

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Lived: 570 – 628; 58 years
Lines: 2; states
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

Emperor of the Sasanian Empire

Sasanian Empire · the 26th of 32 dated reigns · 224 – 651

22 before

Khosrow II590 – …

Ardashir III628 – 630

Shahrbaraz630

3 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 590 – ? · no end recorded · came to it aged 20

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

He lost his throne, then regained it with the help of the Eastern Roman emperor Maurice, and, a decade later, went on to emulate the feats of the Achaemenids, conquering the rich Roman provinces of the Middle East; much of his reign was spent in wars with the Eastern Roman Empire and struggling agai…

Also in the line of Persian Empire (36th of 51, read from the line of Sasanian Empire).

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