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Khusrau I Deathless Soul
Khusrau I, surnamed Deathless Soul: king of Persia, ruling from 531 to 579, member of the Sasanian dynasty.
Main deeds:
- Name: Khusrau I Deathless Soul
- Beginning of reign: 531
- Successor of: Kavad I
- 532 "Eternal Peace" with the Byzantine emperor Justinian
- Domestic reforms (army, taxation...), continuing his father's policies
- 540 Attack on the Byzantine Empire. Khusrau conquers the capital of Roman Syria, Antioch. The inhabitants are deported and settled in a new city near Ctesiphon and Veh-Ardašir, which was called "Khusrau's Antioch".
- Fighting in Armenia and Mesopotamia (Nisibis, Edessa); main Byzantine commander is Belisarius
- 545 Truce
- War against the Hephthalites (White Huns); construction of the Wall of Alexander (probably)
- 551-562 Lazic War against the Byzantine Empire
- 572 Outbreak of another war against the Byzantines
- End of reign: 579
- Succeeded by: his son Hormizd IV the Turk
General Literature on Sasanian Persia
- Touraj Daryaee, Sasanian Persia. The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2009)
- Josef Wiesehöfer, Das antike Persien. Von 550 v. Chr. bis 650 n. Chr. (1994)