Maurice, seeing an opportunity to end the…

591 CE

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.

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Miandow Ab Azarbayjan-e Gharbi Iran View →

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Bahrām Chobin View → Khosrau II View → Maurice View → Narses View →

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Persian people View → Armenian people View → Lazica (Egrisi), Kingdom of View → Mesopotamia (Roman province) View → Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid View → East, Diocese of the View → East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of View → Syria Prima (Roman province) View → Armenia, or Persarmenia, (Persian vassal) Marzabanate of View → Oghuz Turks View → Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty View → Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines) View → Pontus, Diocese of View → Armenia, (Roman vassal) Principality of View →

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Migration Period View → Byzantine–Sassanid War of 572–591 View → Blarathon, Battle of View →

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