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• He was born in the year 135.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  De dynastie van de Sassanieden vormde het koningshuis van het Perzische rijk van de 3e eeuw tot de 7e eeuw. De Sassanidische dynastie (die naar de grootvader van Ardashir werd vernoemd) was de eerste inheemse Perzische dynastie sinds de Achaemeniden.
  
  Op 24 april 224 (AD) versloegen de Sassanieden onder leiding van Ardashir I het rijk van de Parthen in de Slag bij Hormizdgan. De overwinning van de Sassanieden brak de macht van de toen heersende Parthische dynastie van de Arsaciden. Deze slag wordt algemeen gezien als de bevestiging van de macht van de Sassanieden.
  
  Ardashir liet zich in 226 tot 'Koning der Koningen' (sjahansjah) kronen.
  
  Rond de tijd van de opkomst van de Sassanieden was het Romeinse Rijk de dominante macht in het Midden-Oosten, maar Iran lag aan de periferie van hun macht. De Sassanieden kwamen in opstand tegen de Romeinen. Rond 241 begon Shapur I Romeinse gebieden binnen te vallen en veroverde Syrië, Armenië, en steden in Mesopotamië. Na pogingen door Gordianus III in 243 om Syrië terug te winnen, was Valerianus I pas in 260 in staat Shapur uit Syrië te verdrijven maar bij Edessa viel de keizer, die met een kleine delegatie voor onderhandelingen was gekomen, levend in handen van Shapur.
  
  De 65-jarige Valerianus onderging gedurende weken of maanden de verschrikkelijkste vernederingen voor hij uiteindelijk werd terechtgesteld en als opgezette trofee in het koninklijk paleis werd tentoongesteld.
  
  Na zijn morele overwinning viel Shapur Syrië opnieuw binnen maar ditmaal werd hij verslagen door Callistus "Ballista", prefect aangesteld door Gallienus, zoon en opvolger van Valerianus. Het zich terugtrekkende Perzische leger werd opnieuw en in de rug aangevallen door Odaenathus, koning van Palmyra, die de Perzen verdreef en Mesopotamië heroverde.
  
  De Sassanieden zouden nog lang geregeld oorlogen voeren met de Romeinen en hun opvolgers het Byzantijnse Rijk. Deze oorlogen putten hen uiteindelijk zo uit, dat de Arabieren hen relatief makkelijk konden verslaan in 637 in de Slag van Kadisiya.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Sasan (Middle Iranian > Persian ?????), considered the eponymous ancestor of the Sasanians, was "a great warrior and hunter" and a Zoroastrian high priest in south western Iran and living sometime near the fall of the Arsacid Empire.
  
  Identity of Sasan
  
  There are slightly different stories concerning Sasan and his relation to the founder of Sasanid Empire. The northern Iranian historian Tabari mentions further that Sasan married a princess of the Bazarangid family, the vassal dynasty of Fars and that Sasan was a grandfather of Aradashir I while Papag is named as Aradashir I's father.[1] According to Tabari, Sasan is a descendent of Darius the Achaemenian.
  
  According to the Pahlavi book of Karnamak-i Artaxshir-i Papakan, Sasan's wife was a daughter of a noble man called Papag and the marriage was arranged by Papg after hearing that Sasan has "Achamenian blood in him", the son of this union is named Ardashir I. Sasan vanishes shortly after Ardashir appears in the story and Papag is "considered the father of Ardashir".[1]
  
  These stories on different relations between "Ardashir, Papg, and Sasan" have according to Frye a Zoroastrian explanation.[1] Accordingly Sasan was indeed the father of Ardashir and "disappears" from the story after the birth of Ardashir. Similar to the current Zoroastrian practices, Papag had then taken the responsibility of his daughter and her son Ardashir after Sasan "disappears" and is named afterwards as the father of Ardashir.[1]
  
  In the Kabe Zartosht inscription of Shapur I the Great, the four named persons "Sasan, Papag, Ardashir, Shapur" have different by importance titles: Sasan is named as "the lord", Papag as "the king", Ardashir as "the King of kings of Iran" and Shapur is "king of kings of Iran and non-Iran".[1]
  Politics of Sasan family
  
  The political ambition of Sasan was evoked by the troubles and weakness caused in last years of Parthian empire. According to Tabari, Sasan's son Papak managed to consolidate his power with the help of his own sons Šapur and Ardašir.[2] This is considered the beginning of rule of Sasanid family.
  
  Sasanid dynasty managed to become the second Persian Empire in antiquity to rule over a greater portion of Western Asia, the first of such empire was the dynasty founded by Cyrus the Great. The three "founders" of this new empire, that is Papak and his two sons, are depicted and mentioned on the wall of the Harem of Xerxes at Persepolis, a remaining of Achaemenids- a representation suggested to be an evidence of a claim to Achaemenid heritage.[2][3]
  
  As his attested name as Sasan x?aday (Middle Iranian for "Lord Sasan") indicates, Sasan was the custodian of the "Fire Temple of Anahid" at E??a?r.[2] Shahryar the king in 1001 Nights is described as being one of the kings of Sassan and Ladan.[4] Sassan is known for his efforts in trying to bring Zoroastrianism back into the Empire. He even encouraged Papak, the Zoroastrian commander, to take over the Parthian satrapy of Pars

• A child of Bahman al-Malik van Seistan and Rachab bint Pinchi
• This information was last updated on January 16, 2013.

Household of Sasan II der Sassaniden

He is married to Ram Behesht Bazrangi.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Babak II Papag der Sassaniden  165-222 

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