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People: William II of the Netherlands

Yazdegerd, having grown suspicious of Christians in …

Years: 451 - 451

Yazdegerd, having grown suspicious of Christians in the army and the nobility during his eastern campaign, had expelled many of them.

He had then persecuted the Assyrian Christians and, to a much lesser extent, Jews (he publishes a decree abolishing the Sabbath, and orders executions of Jewish leaders, including the Exilarch Mar Nuna).