Hatra defeats the Iranians in 238 at the battle of Shahrazoor, a plain between Sulaymaniyah and Derbendixan, situated in the southeastern part of Iraqi Kurdistan.
"We cannot be certain of being right about the future; but we can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past."
—G. K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America (1922)