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Group: Carmelites (Christian Monasticists)
People: Bahram V
Topic: Roman–Sassanid War (421–422)
Location: Árta Arta Greece

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.

"He who does not know how to give himself an account of three thousand years may remain in the dark, inexperienced, and live from day to day."

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, West-Eastern Divan