sassanian empire

The POD is that for one reason or another(different emperor or Shah, quicker end to the war, the war never starts to begin with) the last Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 doesn't happen or it could even end earlier, the important is that while both empires end up battered they don't have the...

According to Runciman (1977), Heraclius I, Eastern Roman Emperor from 610 to 641, originally considered abandoning Constantinople in the war with Sassanid Persia. Constantinople had been suffering throughout the campaign against the Persians as grain was the primary source of food for the city...

In 1924-25 when the Iranians were hunting for a new monarch for the country, according to مسابقه برای یک سلطنت جدید a minor Iranian noble from Khorasan, Farhad Qademe Al-Malik was offered the Iranian throne. He was the last documented direct descendant of the Mikalid Dynasty, who were the last...

As it says on the lid, this AHQ is a two-parter. The first question if what if the house of Sassan was never founded, or was struck down during their initial rise to take over the lands of the Parthians. Who would replace them? Some other noble dynasty out of Persia seems most likely, but are...

OTL, there was talk among the exiled House of Sassan to permanently settle down in China during the rule of the Tang Dynasty, but they didn't and eventually their direct descendants either assimilated into Central Asian Culture directly loosing their name in the process or were killed off by the...

From my understanding, a major component in the success of the Rashidun Caliphate's expansion was that the Byzantines and Persians were simply exhausted from fighting each other with major occupations of the opposing empire's territory that went far beyond any previous Byzantine-Sassanian...

pls answer follow up questions what if Maurice conquers Persia or atleast Mesopotamia and persian gulf coast using Sasanian civil war of 589-591 since in OTL it was with his army Khosrow II reconquered iran He does this by having Khosrow II killed secret after he is exiled to Byzantine empire...

IIRC the Sassanids were pretty weak after decades of war with the Romans. Because of this, they were quickly conquered by the newly Islamized Arabs. This leads me to believe that even without Islam, the Sassanids might not last that much longer. I'm thinking that maybe some nomadic group...

As we know, the Eastern Romans held on against the Islamic Invasion for ~8 centuries but Persia fell in one and a half decade. What should be done to reverse the situation that the Islamic Caliphate takes the Byzantines pretty easily but Persia holds on with the Zagros as a defensible barrier?

Suppose Aurelian was not successful in defeating Zenobia or with some other POD, how long could the Palmyrene Empire have lasted? Could the Palmyrene Empire have potentially expanded further eastward into the Sassanian Empire? Or would it have been absorbed either by the Romans or Sassanians...

So the son of Peroz III, Narseih was going to Persia, or more specifically the Persian steppes to be restored to the sassanian throne with the aid of a noble named Pei with the backing of the Tang Dynasty. Apparently the plan was to liberate transoxiana, and then restore Peroz III's rump state...

Let's say that due to internal issues, it takes longer for the Arabs to be properly united after the death of Muhammad. How does this influence the course of events? Could Antioch remain held by the Romans? Could Mesopotamia be kept by the Persians? Or would the Arabs still conquer as they did...

---------------------- Part 1: Known Unknown One of the most frustrating but important battles to study by far is the Battle of Resaena, which took place in what was then Roman Syria in 243. Other than the fact that Roman and Persian arms clashed with great ferocity when the event took place...

A weird scenario that recently came to my mind. So, Assume that Persia either manages to beat Byzantium into submission (or at least complacence) at the culmination of the Byzantine-Sassanian Wars in the early 7th century, thus attaining the top dog position in western and middle Asia for the...

After the exiled Persian king Peroz III died in China in 679, his son Narseh was given an army by the Tang emperor to reconquer Persia. The project failed, the Chinese army stopped after retaking the Tarim basin and Narseh was unable to rally the Persians to his cause. But what if the...

I am not an expert on this era, but imagine a world where the Sasanian Empire of Persia had defeated the Byzantine Empire at some point during the later stages of their final war from 602 to 628 - that is, at some point in the 620s. I am sure that there are any number of points of divergence...

"In Ayannid-era hagiographical works of Seerah and modern academic treatments of the Prophet’s life alike, there is a tendency to relegate the Ghazwah of Mut’ah to a role of utter insignificance. This has mostly been due to fact that the confrontation at Mut’ah didn't result in any lasting...

IOTL, roman forces clashed with sassanian persian forces at the Battle of Edessa, in 260 AD. The persians ended up winning, and even captured the roman emperor, Valerian, who was held captive by the persian king Shapur until his death. So, what if the battle had a reverse outcome, with Shapur...

What if instead of Muhammad uniting the Arab tribes under the banner of Islam in the 7th century (let's say Muhammad dies a sickly infant), a Genghis Khan/Temujin-esque figure had united the Arab tribes under his banner and launched a campaign of expansion against the weakened Byzantine and...