Religion A Thousand Years Of The Persian Book Exhibitions Library Of Congress
Certainly, the substantial domains of the Surens, Karens and Varazes, had become part of the original Sassanid state as semi-independent states. Therefore, the noble families that attended at the court of the Sassanid empire continued to be ruling lines in their own right, although subordinate to the shahanshah. The abrupt fall of the Sassanid Empire was completed in a period of just 5 years, and most of its territory was absorbed into the Islamic caliphate however, several Iranian cities resisted…