History Atlas

Filters:

Yazdegerd III, who is almost the last living member of the House of Sasan, is the son of the Shahryar who was the son of Khosrau II.

The name of Yazdegerd's mother is unknown but she was from a non-aristocratic family.

The eight-year-old heir is hiding in Estakhr during the civil war in Persia, when on June 16, 632, he is crowned here as Shahanshah.

The Muslim conquest of Persia begins in his first year of reign.