User talk:Keeby101/Archive 2

The information that I found on the Sasanian Empire.

For approximately a month and a half, I have done extensive research on this topic. Mainly because I have been working with the editors on the map workshop and have been trying to reach a consensus on the Sasanian Empire talkpage.

I will not start another edit war, repeat, will not start another edit war on regards to this topic or any other topic for that matter! Except for the Megatherium and Mylodon topics because any edit war regarding the extinction date, how and why they went extinct is justifiable for edit warring.

When I was finally done with my research on the Sasanian Empire, I took a look back at the edit war on the talk page. It turns out that Cpladikas and I were both right and wrong at the same time.

Yes, the Persians lost nearly all of their Central Asian and Indian holdings to the Hepthalites. Yes, Transoxiana came under control of the Gokturks after the Hepthalites were defeated, BUT, there were a few minor details that Cdpladikas aka Constantine left out of the whole thing.

The peace between the Gokturks and the Sasanians did not last long at all nor did the borders as the Gokturks began to disrupt Sasanian income from the Silk Route and threatened the Sasanian Empire from the northeast. Thus sparking the First Perso-Turkic War in which the Sasanian army, led by Bahram Chobin defeated and conquered all of Transoxiana along with most of the territory the Gokturks held.

It wasn't until after the Byzantines and Gokturks both defeated the Sasanian Empire in the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 that the boundary of the Sasanian Empire in the Northeast officially became the Oxus river

Here are my sources to back it up:

Chosroes II continues his victorious career, conquering Egypt and Asia Minor and occupying both Alexandria and also Chaceldon across the Bosporus from Constinanople.

In this campaign the Persians broke through Byzantiums's eastern provinces; in 609, they reached Chaceldon, directly facing the capital, and their triumphal progress, far more serious than before, occupied the first part of the reign of Herakleios.

Chosroes II of Persia who owed his throne to Maurice, declared war on the muderer of his benefactor. Persian armies were victorious in Mesopotamia and Syria, capturing the fortress towns of Dara, Amida Haran, Edessa, Hierapolis and Aleppo, though they were repulsed from Antioch and Damascus. They then overran Byzantine Armenia and raided deep into Anatolia through the provinces of Cappadocia, Phrygia, Galatia, and Bithynia. Byzantine resistance collapsed. A Persian Army penetrated as far as the Bosporus. Antioch and most of the remaining Byzantine fortresses in Syria and Mesopotamia and Armenia were captured(611). After a long seiges, the invaders took Damascus (613) and Jerusalem (614). Chosroes then began a determined invasion of Anatolia (615). Persian forces under General Shahen captured Chaceldon on the Bosporus after a long siege (616). Here the Persians remained, within one of of Constintanople, for more than 10 years. Meanwhile, they captured Ancyra and Rhodes (620); remaining Byzantine fortresses in Armenia were captured; the Persian occupation cut off a principal Byzantine recruiting ground. After defeating Byzantine garrisons in the Nile Valley, Chosroes marched across the Lybian Desert as far as Cyrene. These victories cut off the usual grain supplies from Egypt to Constantinople. Under Chosroes II the Persians virtually eliminated the Byzantines from all their Asiatic and Egyptian provinces, expanding Sassanid dominions to the extent of the Empire of Darius.

The able Persian generals Shahrvaraz and Shahin led the Sassanid armies through Mesopotamia, Armenia and Syria into Palestine and Asia Minor. They took Antioch in 611, Damascus in 613, and then Jurusalem, in 614 (sending a shock through the whole Christian world). At Jerusalem the Christian defenders refused to give up the city, and it was taken by assault after three weeks, and given over to the sack. The Persians carries off the True Cross to Ctesiphon. Within another four years they had conquered Egypt and were in control of Asia Minor, as far as Chaceldon, opposite of Constantinople on the shores of the Bosporus. No shah of Persia since Cyrus had achieved such military successes.

NOTE: The sources that I quoted from are the sources that cannot be linked due to them not being available to read on the internet. The sources that I cited and quoted from were from books at my local libraries. Regards. :)

PLEASE IGNORE THE FIRST TWO SOURCES AS THEY ARE FROM AN OLD SECTION ON MY TALKPAGE!! I cannot be more abundantly clear on that regard.

Also, on regards to me citing www.iranicaonline.org as one of my sources, even Kathovo acknowledged that website was a reliable source when he and I had a conversation on this topic. See here: https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User_talk:Keeby101#My_Grand_Proposal_1_reformed.21

Keeby101 (talk) 04:12, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

I forgot to mention, I will post all of this on the Recommendations to Map workshop team section of the Sasanian Empire talk page tomorrow. Cheers! Keeby101 (talk) 05:05, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Can someone please comment on my talk page.

I haven't gotten any response from any editors lately and I really would like, more like need to have editors comment on what I have recently gotten around to, see above. Keeby101 (talk) 19:11, 3 November 2013 (UTC)