Hormizdaghan
Hormizdaghan is the name of the plain, undoubtedly in the area of Suse, in Iran, where proceeded on April 28th 224 a decisive battle between the king Parthian arsacide Artaban V and the Persian king sassanide Ardashir, assisted of his/her son and heir Shapur. It is Ardashir which was victorious, Artaban V was killed, which put an end to the dynasty Arsacides. Ardashir was made crown King of the Kings two years later with Ctésiphon, capital of the Parthian empire arsacide.
This battle was celebrated thereafter by Persian historiography like the birth certificate of the empire sassanide, which lasted until the 7th century. It was represented on an immense monumental low-relief ordered by Ardashir close to the city of Ardashir Khurreh in Persia. The arabo-Persan chronicler Tabari, at the 9th century, in fact an account which agrees with this ancient low-relief. The battle of Hormizdaghan is also evoked in the epopee of the Livre of the Kings (Shâh Nâmâ) of the Iranian poet Firdawsi, at the beginning of the 11th century.
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