King Khosrau II, following the murder of …
Years: 603 - 603
King Khosrau II, following the murder of his ally, the Emperor, launches an offensive against Constantinople, to avenge Maurice's death, his "friend and father,” and tries to reconquer imperial territory.
Narses, governor of Upper Mesopotamia, rebels against Phocas at the city of Edessa and requests aid from the Persians.
Khosrau sends an expeditionary force to Armenia and crosses the Euphrates.
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People
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- Persian people
- Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
- Osroene (Roman province)
- Armenia, or Persarmenia, (Persian vassal) Marzabanate of
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Armenia, (Roman vassal) Principality of
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Non-dynastic
