Maurice, seeing an opportunity to end the …
Years: 591 - 591
Maurice, seeing an opportunity to end the prolonged war to the advantage of Constantinople, assists Khosrau II to regain the Persian throne.
He sends an imperial army of thirty-five thousand men under Narses into Mesopotamia through Syria.
At the same time a five thousand-man expeditionary force in Armenia advanced through Caucasian Iberia into Media (modern Azerbaijan).
Bahram retreats to Azerbaijan but is finally defeated at the Battle of Blarathon by a combined army led by John Mystacon, Narses, and Khosrau II.
Bahram, fleeing to the Turks in Central Asia, settles in Ferghana, but will be murdered some time after by a hired assassin sent by Khosrau II.
Locations
People
Groups
- Persian people
- Armenian people
- Lazica (Egrisi), Kingdom of
- Mesopotamia (Roman province)
- Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
- East, Diocese of the
- East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of
- Syria Prima (Roman province)
- Armenia, or Persarmenia, (Persian vassal) Marzabanate of
- Oghuz Turks
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Pontus, Diocese of
- Armenia, (Roman vassal) Principality of
