Khosro II

Khosro II or Khosrow II (sometimes called Parviz , " the victorieux" Chosroès in Greek is said), was an emperor Sassanide, wire of Hormizd IV (579-590), small son of Khosro Ier (531-579), which reigned of 590 with 628.

Khosro II was put on the throne by the large ones which had rebelled against Hormizd IV until 590, and shortly after his/her father was plugged and killed. But in same time, the general Bahram Chûbin was made proclaim king under the name of Bahram VI (590-591), and Khosro II was unable to be maintained.

The war against the Roman of Byzance, which had begun in 571, had not finished yet. Khosro II flees in Syria and persuades the emperor Maurice Ier (582-602) to send to him of the assistance against the promise of territorial advantages. Thus, Khosro II penetrated in Persian territory supported by a Roman, reinforced army Armenian quotas and loyal supporters sassanides. After hard combat, Bahram Chûbin was overcome close to Ganzak (Azerbaïdjan). Khosro II, and with him the dynasty sassanide, found its throne, the interlude of Bahram Chûbin having lasted only one year. The King of the kings coldly restored honoured his promises. Following that, the Roman Empire found its Eastern borders of 502.

Khosro II was lower than his/her grandfather. It haughty and cruel, miserly and was related to the lust; he was neither a general, nor an administrator. At the beginning of its reign, it supported the Chrétiens. But in 602, when Maurice was assassinated by Phocas (602-610), it began a war against Rome to avenge its death. Its armies plundered the Syria and the minor Asia, it advanced even until Chalcédoine in 608.

In 613 and 614, Damas and Jerusalem were taken by the general Schahr-Barâz and the Holy Cross was brought back in triumph. A little later even the Egypt was conquered. The Romans offered only little resistance, since they were worried by internal tensions, and were pressed by the Avars and the Slaves. With final, in 622, the emperor Héraclius (who had succeeded Phocas in 610 and which reigned until in 641) is able to advance in battle order. In 624, it enters the Médie of north, where it destroys the large temple of the fire of Gandzak (Gazaca); in 626, it fights in Lazistan (Colchide), while Schahr-Barâz advances until Chalcédoine and tests, in vain, plain with Avars, to conquer Constantinople.

In 627, Héraclius is victorious Persian army with the battle of Ninive and advances towards Ctésiphon. Khosro II flees then of its favorite residence, Dastagei (close to Baghdad), without offering resistance. As its despotism and its indolence had given birth to an opposition everywhere, his/her oldest son Kavadh II (which briefly reigns into 628), that Khosro II had made imprison, was released by large kingdom and was proclaimed King. Four days after, Khosro II was killed in its palate (February 628). Meanwhile, Héraclius returns triumphing to Constantinople, the Holy Cross was restored the following year (629) and Egypt was evacuated. On the contrary, the Persian empire, of its size reached ten years before, starts to sink in an anarchy without hope.

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