Kavad II: king of Persia, ruling from 628 to 630, member of the Sasanian dynasty.Main deeds:
Name: Sheroe
Reign: In 628 CE
Successor of: Khusrau II the Victorious
Early in 628, crown prince Sheroe put his father put in jail, where he would die…
Khusrau III: king of Persia, ruling from c.629 to c.631, member of the Sasanian dynasty.Main deeds:
Name: Khusrau III
The Sasanian king Khusrau II fought a long war against the Byzantines, but was defeated by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius, and replaced by…
Khusrau IV: king of Persia, ruling from 631 to 637, member of the Sasanian dynasty.Main deeds:
Name: Khusrau IV
Beginning of reign: 631
The Sasanian king Khusrau II fought a long war against the Byzantines, but was defeated by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius.
In…
Kidinnu or Cidenas: famous Babylonian astronomer (fourth century BCE?).Babylonian Astronomy
Tablet with a list of eclipses between 518 and 465, mentioning…
Neriglissar: king of ancient Babylonia, ruled 556.The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar died in 562 and was succeeded in by his son Amel-Marduk, who was almost immediately assassinated and replaced by his brother-in-law Neriglissar. When he died in 556, he was succeeded by his…
Limmu List: list of Assyrian officials who gave their names to a given year. Two parts survive, one dealing with the Middle Bronze Age and one dealing with years 858-699.
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Limmu List: list of Assyrian officials who gave their names to a given year. Two parts survive, one dealing with the reigns of Erišum I until Išme-Dagan I (twentieth until eighteenth century BCE) and one dealing with the years 858-699 BCE.
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Luxenberg Thesis: the idea that Islam originated as a Monophysite Christian sect in eastern Syria. It assumes that the Quran was not written in Arabic but in Syriac-Arabic, which in turn presupposes that there has been a time in which…