Did Persians Really Lose Their Empire To Arabs? Were They Persians Or Iranians? | S4E9

History Behind News Program

►How did the mighty Sasanian Persian Empire fall to the Muslim Arabs?

►What happened in the Persian Empire on February 9, in the year 628? ►Where is the tomb of the last Sasanian King of kings?

Were the Achaemenid and Sasanian Empires Persian or Iranian? What's the significance of these terms in the context of the past? How about now? Or in the 20th century, when Persia officially changed its name to Iran?

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⁠Dr. Khodadad Rezakhani⁠ is a lecturer and a senior research fellow at Leiden University. He is a historian of Global Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, with a focus on Central and West Asia from 500-700 CE. His research focuses on the Sasanian and Early Islamic economy of the Near East.

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