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Ardashir I founds the Sasanian Empire
Ardashir I overthrows the last Parthian king and establishes the Sasanian Empire, the last great pre-Islamic Persian state, with its capital at Ctesiphon.
Era: Hellenistic, Parthian and Sasanian Persia
Sources: Sasanian Empire · World History Encyclopedia, Sāsānian dynasty · Encyclopaedia Britannica
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