Khosrow I
Shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire from 531 to 579
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The Sasanian king who turned "Perpetual Peace" into a forty-year war, sacked Antioch, drove a Byzantine emperor to madness, and stretched his empire from Yemen to the edge of India — all while his name became synonymous with kingship itself.
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Khosrow I inherited the Sasanian throne in 531, took Byzantine gold in a peace treaty the following year, then spent the next decades breaking it. In 540, dissatisfied with Byzantine clients and nudged by Ostrogoth envoys, he marched west and sacked Antioch, deporting its population to Persia. He turned Lazica into a protectorate, triggering a grinding war that paused in Syria but never stopped in the Caucasus. In 572, when Justin II broke the truce, Khosrow besieged Dara and took it — the shock reportedly shattered the emperor's mind. Beyond the west, he allied with the Göktürks to crush the…
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