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Roman–Sassanid War (421–422)

Years: 421 - 422

The Roman–Sassanid war of 421–422 is a conflict between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Sassanids.

The casus belli is the persecution of Christians by the Sassanid king Bahram V, which had come as a response to attacks by Christians against Zoroastrian temples; the Christian Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II declares war and obtains some victories, but in the end the two powers agree to sign a peace on the status quo ante.

"History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends."

― Mark Twain, The Gilded Age (1874)