Shahryar

It reigned supposedly on a Persian Empire which extended until in India, on all the adjacent islands and much further that the Gange, until in China, while his younger brother, Shah Zaman or Shaw-zummaun, reigned on Samarkand.

In the tale, Shahryar is betrayed by his wife, which makes it insane of rage and makes him believe that finally, all the women will betray it. Therefore, each night during three years, the insane king takes a woman and makes it carry out the next morning, until he marries Shéhérazade, the splendid one and intelligent girl of sound Vizier. During Thousand and One Nights of at a stretch, Shéhérazade tells in Shahryar a history, stopping each time at dawn on a Cliffhanger, thus forcing it to keep it in life one day more so that it can finish the tale the following night.