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Yazdegerd I Of Persia




Yazdegerd I was a highly intelligent ruler, who tried to emancipate himself from the dominion of the magnates and the Magian priests. He punished the nobles severely when they attempted oppression; he granted Christians their own organization.

With the Roman Empire Yazdegerd I lived in peace and friendship, and is therefore as much praised by the Byzantine authors

After a reign of twenty-two years he appears to have been murdered in Khorasan .

  Before Bahram IV
  Title Sassanid Ruler
  Years 399 &ndash 421



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